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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Tara Hills, California

Volunteers have reported 3 automated license plate readers in and around Tara Hills — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 3 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Tara Hills, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Tara Hills itself.

The rest sit in Richmond (2), Pinole (1).

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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Reported cameras nearby
#739
of 898 California cities tracked
0.1%
of California’s reported cameras
Live camera map 3 reported cameras around Tara Hills, California
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Tara Hills

No new reports near Tara Hills in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 18:11 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Tara Hills

The readers mapped around Tara Hills break down as 2 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. Every report here dates to Nov 2025.

  • Blume Drive — 2 readers
  • Fitzgerald Drive — 1 reader

Tara Hills in the Contra Costa County picture

Contra Costa County has 436 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #803 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,161,458 residents and 4,683 road miles. By road density that is 0.09 cameras per road mile, in the top 5.1% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 3 traffic.

What’s watching Tara Hills

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 Tara Hills — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Tara Hills (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

What you can do in Tara Hills

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.

Cameras near Tara Hills

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).