Cameras / California / Oakland
License plate readers in Oakland, CA
Volunteers have documented 520 automated license plate readers inside Oakland. That is the 3rd-largest total among the 329 California cities indexed here, and 2.7% of the statewide total. At 9.3 readers per square mile, Oakland sits in the most densely covered 5% of the 2,231 US cities indexed nationally. Nearly all of them — 98% — are Flock Safety units.
Updated August 14, 2026.
520
readers documented
9.3
per square mile
3rd
of 329 indexed California cities
2.7%
of California’s documented total
Dot colors follow the manufacturer legend below. Boundary: U.S. Census Bureau, 2025 Cartographic Boundary Files. Locations: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Who makes them
- Flock Safety508 · 98%
- Other vendors6 · 1%
- Unknown6 · 1%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 506 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- California Highway Patrol (CHP) (368), California Highway Patrol (23), Oakland Police Department (20). Who operates these cameras nationally →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (54), street lamp (4), post (1)
- Coverage area
- 56 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: What a Flock camera looks like · How ALPRs work · California ALPR law
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