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Oakland, by camera type.
Oakland: 544 plate readers mapped. Nearby: Piedmont 40, Alameda 57, Emeryville 38 and Berkeley 83.
Speed cameras in Oakland
All issuing tickets since Mar 15, 2026 (as reported).
21 more speed or red light cameras are on the map, counted apart from official lists.
The enabling law:
AB 645, California Vehicle Code §22425(a)
Red light cameras in Oakland
None listed in Oakland. Nearest city program in California: San Francisco, about 1 mi from the city line (running, as of Dec 2025), not yet on this map.
License plate readers in Oakland
544 plate readers are on the map in Oakland, and 530 of them carry the Flock Safety tag. 437 of 544 say who runs them. California Highway Patrol (CHP) is tagged on 365.
First-mapped dates here run from Mar 24, 2022 to Oct 26, 2026. 394 of the 544 were first mapped in 2024, with 375 in November alone.
The EFF's Atlas of Surveillance lists Oakland Police Department and Alameda County Sheriff's Office as agencies that use plate readers.
Who can search plate reads in Oakland
The Oakland Police Department’s transparency portal does not list who can search its plate reads (Oct 14, 2026). Its portal says it keeps each read for 30 days.
Oakland Police Department
- Agencies on its posted sharing list
- Not stated
- Keeps each read for
- 30 days
- Plate readers its portal lists
- 293
- Agencies whose reads it can search
- 128
Its transparency portal, as of Oct 14, 2026 · See its sharing lists, as of Oct 14, 2026
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Portal figures and sharing lists: EyesOnFlock (CC BY-SA 4.0), from Flock Safety transparency portals.
Traffic cameras in Oakland
No traffic camera feed is listed for Oakland yet.
Camera tickets in Oakland
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- What plate readers keep, and who runs them
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156,883 cameras listed or mapped so far.
Sources and updates
How this page was made: CamsAhead writes each page type once, then fills it with this place's data from the sources below.
- OakDOT: speed camera list, checked Nov 7, 2026
- OpenStreetMap contributors: plate readers, speed and red light cameras, data as of Nov 7, 2026; ODbL 1.0
- EFF Atlas of Surveillance: agencies that use plate readers, data as of Aug 2026; CC BY 4.0
- US Census Bureau: city boundary (cartographic file 2025)
Plate reader points are mapped by OpenStreetMap volunteers (data as of November 7, 2026).
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