Flock & ALPR Cameras in Centerton, Arkansas
Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around Centerton — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Contract Canceled
Centerton is on the record here. Centerton, AR terminated its Flock Safety contract covering 16 cameras. Cited reasons: Public backlash; Privacy / surveillance concerns; Resident council testimony.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 8 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Centerton, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 4 of them sit inside Centerton itself.
The rest sit in Highfill (2), Bentonville (1).
2 of them name an operator in the record: XNA (2). 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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- Sep 28 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 18 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Centerton
The readers mapped around Centerton break down as 10 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: XNA. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Mar 2026.
- Regional Avenue — 2 readers
- State Highway 102 — 1 reader
- Greenhouse Road — 1 reader
- East Centerton Boulevard — 1 reader
- North Vaughn Road — 1 reader
- Greenstone Drive — 1 reader
- West State Highway 72 — 1 reader
- AR 279 — 1 reader
- South Main Street — 1 reader
Centerton AR PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Centerton AR PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 27 other agencies.
Centerton in the Benton County picture
Benton County has 80 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,108 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 294,541 residents and 3,663 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 27.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 8 traffic. Operators named on the record: XNA (2).
What’s watching Centerton
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 Centerton — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Centerton (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Centerton
- 4 license plate readers reported removed near Centerton, AR
- What happens now that Centerton has cut ties with Flock Safety?
- Centerton joins growing list of Arkansas cities to terminate Flock contracts
- Centerton City Council votes to remove Flock Safety cameras from town | Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
What you can do in Centerton
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 Centerton
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).