Flock & ALPR Cameras in Cabot, Arkansas
Volunteers have reported 11 automated license plate readers in and around Cabot — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Paused
Cabot is on the record here. Cabot, AR suspended its Flock Safety cameras. Cited reasons: Public backlash; Privacy / surveillance concerns; Technology review.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 11 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Cabot, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 8 of them sit inside Cabot itself.
The rest sit in Jacksonville (2).
1 of them name an operator in the record: The Home Depot (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Cabot in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 21:32 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Cabot
The readers mapped around Cabot break down as 11 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2025; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- South Rockwood Drive — 2 readers
- Kerr Station Road — 1 reader
- South Pine Street — 1 reader
- Bill Foster Memorial Highway West — 1 reader
- West Main Street — 1 reader
- AR 367 — 1 reader
- Goings Drive — 1 reader
- Dakota Drive — 1 reader
- T P White Drive — 1 reader
- John Harden Drive — 1 reader
Cabot AR PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Cabot AR PD runs 9 cameras of its own, has logged 641 plate-database searches, has captured 141,394 vehicle records. Its network connects to 1,689 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: 18th Judicial District Drug Task Force - TN PD, Abilene KS PD, Abilene TX PD, Acworth GA PD, Ada County ID SO, Ada OK PD, Adairville KY PD, Adams County IL SO.
Cabot in the Lonoke County picture
Lonoke County has 24 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #965 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 74,747 residents and 2,075 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 40% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 11 traffic. Operators named on the record: The Home Depot (1).
What’s watching Cabot
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 Cabot — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Cabot (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Cabot
- Cabot Flock Cameras Unplugged and Covered as Mayors Ken Kincade and Seth Connell Sound Privacy Alarm
- Cabot Suspends Flock Safety License Plate Reader Camera Program
- Cabot, AR: Paused
- Mayflower joins Cabot, Pea Ridge in stopping use of Flock license plate readers | Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
What you can do in Cabot
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 Cabot
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).