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Arkansas · Local Surveillance Report

Flock & ALPR Cameras in Batesville, Arkansas

Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around Batesville — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 8 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Batesville, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 7 of them sit inside Batesville itself.

The rest sit in Southside (1).

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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8
Reported cameras nearby
#46
of 107 Arkansas cities tracked
0.7%
of Arkansas’s reported cameras
Live camera map 8 reported cameras around Batesville, Arkansas
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Batesville

No new reports near Batesville in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 21:33 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Batesville

The readers mapped around Batesville break down as 5 Genetec, 3 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.

  • Harrison Street — 3 readers
  • North Central Avenue — 1 reader
  • Batesville Boulevard — 1 reader
  • North Saint Louis Street — 1 reader
  • Myers Street — 1 reader
  • Eagle Mountain Drive — 1 reader

Batesville in the Independence County picture

Independence County has 12 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #979 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 38,120 residents and 1,439 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 48.4% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 4 traffic, 3 parking, 1 street.

Camera activity around Batesville, last 30 days

5 newly reported, 9 removed in our hourly change log for Batesville. Latest change logged Aug 19, 2026.

What’s watching Batesville

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 Batesville — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Batesville (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

The latest around Batesville

What you can do in Batesville

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.

Cameras near Batesville

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).