Flock & ALPR Cameras in Decatur, Arkansas
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Decatur — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 13 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Decatur
The readers mapped around Decatur break down as 2 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2026; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- North Main Street — 1 reader
- South Main Street — 1 reader
Decatur 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 2 traffic.
Camera activity around Decatur, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Decatur. Latest change logged Sep 4, 2026.
What’s watching Decatur
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 Decatur — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Decatur (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Decatur
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 Decatur
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).