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Neighborhood group offers two privately funded license‑plate‑reader cameras; council agrees to consider matter at a future meeting
Summary
A Knickerbocker‑area residents’ group offered to donate and maintain two privately funded license‑plate‑reader (LPR) cameras covering roughly 200 households, prompting the Orinda City Council to vote to bring a staff report and decision to a future meeting for specific direction.
Resident Evan Dreyer told the Orinda City Council on March 4 that a neighborhood coalition privately funded and installed two license‑plate‑reader (LPR) cameras in the Knickerbocker area in July and that the cameras have coincided with a drop in reported burglaries in that neighborhood.
Dreyer said about 30 families financed the cameras and that installation and solar power costs are covered through July 2026. He offered to assign the cameras to the city and to help the city negotiate terms…
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