Flock & ALPR Cameras in Barling, Arkansas
Volunteers have reported 21 automated license plate readers in and around Barling — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 23 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Barling, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 9 of them sit inside Barling itself.
The rest sit in Fort Smith (14).
2 of them name an operator in the record: [Willaimson Place POA] (1), [Williamson Place POA] (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Barling in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:12 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Barling
The readers mapped around Barling break down as 17 Flock Safety, 3 Axis Communications, 2 Genetec. Named operators in the reports: [Williamson Place POA], [Willaimson Place POA]. The first camera here was reported in May 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Rogers Avenue — 6 readers
- Fort Street — 2 readers
- Chad Colley Boulevard — 2 readers
- Massard Road — 2 readers
- AR 59 — 1 reader
- Church Street — 1 reader
- H Street — 1 reader
- Moody Road — 1 reader
- Williamson Place — 1 reader
- Tennessee Circle Road — 1 reader
- AR 549 — 1 reader
- Phoenix Avenue — 1 reader
+ 3 more streets and roads mapped around Barling — all on the live map above.
Barling AR PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Barling AR PD runs 8 cameras of its own, has logged 109 plate-database searches, has captured 99,587 vehicle records. Its network connects to 39 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Anna TX PD, Benton County AR SO, Boone County AR SO, Brookland AR PD, Cabot AR PD, Fort Smith AR PD, Grant County AR SO, Grant County AR SO1.
Barling in the Sebastian County picture
Sebastian County has 45 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #887 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 128,448 residents and 1,373 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 19.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 22 traffic, 1 public. Operators named on the record: [Williamson Place POA] (1), [Willaimson Place POA] (1).
Camera activity around Barling, last 30 days
4 newly reported in our hourly change log for Barling. Latest change logged Aug 18, 2026.
What’s watching Barling
These aren’t red-light cameras. Automated license plate readers like Flock Safety’s photograph every plate that passes, log the time and place, and store it in a searchable database that’s often shared far beyond Barling — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Barling (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Barling
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Barling, AR
- Stolen car recovered , drugs seized in Barling with use of Flock
- Barling Police Dept. incorporates new technology to reduce crime
What you can do in Barling
Ask who approved these cameras, how long plate data is kept, and who it’s shared with. File a public records request, raise it at a council meeting, and see the full playbook on Take Action. Fighting this locally? Join or start a chapter and we’ll amplify you.
Not sure what one looks like? See photographs of installed cameras before you go looking.
Cameras near Barling
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).