License-plate cameras (Flock)

Six officials raised license-plate cameras (Flock) at 15 meetings. Charlene Wang raised it most, at 6.

We count who raised it, not which side they took.

15meetings where an official raised it

6officials

Spot check: 33 of 37 lines were on topic. · Quotes from Nov 6, 2025 to Oct 6, 2026 · How we count

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Share of each body's meetings where an official raised license-plate cameras (Flock)

Share of each board's transcribed meetings where an identified official raised it. Shaded band: 90% range; overlapping bands are too close to call. Boards with fewer than six meetings left out.

Privacy Advisory Commission50% · 3 of 6 transcribed meetings
Public Safety Committee40% · 6 of 15 transcribed meetings
City Council15% · 3 of 20 transcribed meetings
Police Commission11% · 2 of 17 transcribed meetings
Public Works and Transportation Committee6% · 1 of 16 transcribed meetings

The 15 meetings where an official raised license-plate cameras (Flock)

Newest first. School-board meetings open the district's own video.

All 15 meetings

Six officials, by meetings where they raised it

87% of officials’ talk time on it is identified, so counts are at least these.

Charlene WangDistrict 2 · City Council6meetings

“I know also of high interest from the general public is these every 6-month audit around the flock camera usage.”

Play at 1:48:59Oct 6, 2026

Ken HoustonCouncilmember · City Council5meetings

“I mean, they should be able to have drones that can fly in bad weather technology. We can go to the moon, come back, you know, do all this right along with the flock cameras, can’t they?”

Play at 1:57:32Jul 14, 2026

Carroll FifeDistrict 3 · City Council3meetings

“Can you document the— how Flock has led to the decrease in crimes and aided the police force in solving some of these issues or being able to have a real-time response?”

Play at 1:53:08May 12, 2026

Henry Gage IIICouncil At-Large Representative · Privacy Advisory Commission3meetings

“You talk about how the addition of license plate readers makes the citation process a lot more, quite frankly, possible because you have something to cite as opposed to trying to deduce who a person is from a video.”

Play at 1:09:17Nov 6, 2025

Ricardo Garcia AcostaSelection Panel Appointee · Police Commission2meetings

“Those should be the same considerations and protections that are with any vendor, especially, you know, how quickly Flock is, uh, dropping like flies with certain cities because of all the concerns that they’re having, right?”

Play at 2:34:44Sep 24, 2026

Also raised it at one meeting

Janani RamachandranDistrict 4

15 local news articles on license-plate cameras (Flock) in 12 months, and 15 meetings that took it up

Month by month · articles we found in local outlets (KQED, Oakland North, San Francisco Chronicle, The Oaklandside and others), not all coverage

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Flock’s Oakland cameras are tracking millions of trips. Are safeguards enforceable?The Oaklandside · Sep 22, 2026
Flock’s pitch to police: Be like Oakland and RichmondThe Oaklandside · Aug 14, 2026
Oakland approves Flock license plate cameras contract amid concernsSan Francisco Chronicle · Dec 17, 2025
Oakland Council Expands Flock License Plate Reader Network Despite Privacy ConcernsKQED · Dec 17, 2025

Meetings that raised license-plate cameras (Flock) drew 13.4 public speakers each

Public speakers per meeting, the whole meeting, not only this item · counts of people, never names · members of the public are never named, pictured or quoted

Meetings that raised license-plate cameras (Flock)13.4

10 meetings

All other meetings we counted10.4

187 meetings

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