Flock & ALPR Cameras in San Leandro, California
Volunteers have reported 233 automated license plate readers in and around San Leandro — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 233 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of San Leandro, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 77 of them sit inside San Leandro itself.
The rest sit in Oakland (156).
173 of them name an operator in the record: California Highway Patrol (CHP) (112), San Leandro Police Department (31), Oakland Police Department (10), Kaiser Permanente (9), California Highway Patrol (5), San Leandro (4), Columbia Electric (2). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
Need this city’s camera data? Custom extracts are free for researchers, journalists and advocates. Ask for it.
- Oct 4 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 30 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 7 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 7 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in San Leandro
The readers mapped around San Leandro break down as 227 Flock Safety, 4 Genetec. Named operators in the reports: California Highway Patrol (CHP), San Leandro Police Department, Oakland Police Department, Kaiser Permanente, California Highway Patrol. The first camera here was reported in Jul 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- MacArthur Boulevard — 16 readers
- 98th Avenue — 14 readers
- Hegenberger Road — 11 readers
- International Boulevard — 10 readers
- Bancroft Avenue — 10 readers
- Fairway Drive — 9 readers
- Foothill Boulevard — 7 readers
- San Leandro Street — 6 readers
- Marina Boulevard — 6 readers
- MacArthur Freeway — 6 readers
- Fontaine Street — 5 readers
- Airport Drive — 5 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around San Leandro — all on the live map above.
San Leandro CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, San Leandro CA PD runs 86 cameras of its own, has logged 766 plate-database searches, has captured 765,774 vehicle records. Its network connects to 338 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: ACRATT -CA, Alameda CA PD, Alameda County CA SO, Albany CA PD, Alhambra CA PD, Amador County CA Sheriff's Office, Anaheim CA PD, Anderson CA PD.
San Leandro in the Alameda County picture
Alameda County has 1,204 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #235 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 10.9% nationally. That’s across 1,651,949 residents and 3,687 road miles. By road density that is 0.33 cameras per road mile, in the top 0.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 219 traffic, 4 parking. Operators named on the record: California Highway Patrol (CHP) (112), San Leandro Police Department (31), Oakland Police Department (10).
Camera activity around San Leandro, last 30 days
4 newly reported in our hourly change log for San Leandro. Latest change logged Sep 7, 2026.
What’s watching San Leandro
These aren’t red-light cameras. Automated license plate readers like Flock Safety’s photograph every plate that passes, log the time and place, and store it in a searchable database that’s often shared far beyond San Leandro — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to San Leandro (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around San Leandro
- 3 new license plate readers reported around San Leandro, CA
- 6 new license plate readers reported around San Leandro, CA
- Why San Leandro’s Civic Leaders Chose Flock for Responsible Crime-Solving
- San Leandro Punts on Plan for More Surveillance Cameras – for now
What you can do in San Leandro
Ask who approved these cameras, how long plate data is kept, and who it’s shared with. File a public records request, raise it at a council meeting, and see the full playbook on Take Action. Fighting this locally? Join or start a chapter and we’ll amplify you.
Not sure what one looks like? See photographs of installed cameras before you go looking.
Cameras near San Leandro
← All California cameras, counties & cities
Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).