Crime & Safety
Orinda Neighborhood Paid For Its Own License Plate Reader Cameras To Deter Crime
"This is something that in this neighborhood we dealt with personally, not only myself but other people," Evan Dreyer said.
May 7, 2025
Residents in one East Bay community got so fed up with the number of burglaries and break-ins that they took matters into their own hands, paying to install their own license plate reader cameras.
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Now, those same residents are asking the city of Orinda to pick up the tab on their cameras and add 15 more.
Evan Dreyer said there are at least a dozen neighbors who have surveillance video of burglars casing houses or breaking into homes in the Knickerbocker neighborhood of Orinda.
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