Flock & ALPR Cameras in Fort Smith, Arkansas
Volunteers have reported 26 automated license plate readers in and around Fort Smith — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 29 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 29 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 29 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 26 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Fort Smith
The readers mapped around Fort Smith break down as 27 Flock Safety, 3 Genetec. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Rogers Avenue — 2 readers
- Kelley Highway — 2 readers
- Grand Avenue — 2 readers
- Spradling Avenue — 2 readers
- Garrison Avenue — 2 readers
- South 68th Street — 2 readers
- Jenny Lind Road — 1 reader
- Dodson Avenue — 1 reader
- Old Greenwood Road — 1 reader
- US 71 — 1 reader
- North 3rd Street — 1 reader
- Brooken Hill Drive — 1 reader
+ 12 more streets and roads mapped around Fort Smith — all on the live map above.
Fort Smith AR PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Fort Smith AR PD runs 42 cameras of its own, has logged 206 plate-database searches, has captured 276,054 vehicle records. Its network connects to 66 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Alexander AR PD, AR - Alma PD, Altoona IA PD, Beebe AR PD, Benton County AR SO, Blue Springs MO PD, Blytheville AR PD, Boone County AR SO.
Fort Smith 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 19 traffic, 2 street, 1 intersection.
Camera activity around Fort Smith, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Fort Smith. Latest change logged Aug 18, 2026.
What’s watching Fort Smith
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 Fort Smith — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Fort Smith (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Fort Smith
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Fort Smith, AR
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Fort Smith, AR
- Van Buren announces changes to its use of Flock cameras , following similar action by Greenwood and Fort Smith | The Arkansas Democrat - Gazette
- Van Buren announces changes to its use of Flock cameras, following similar action by Greenwood and Fort Smith
What you can do in Fort Smith
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 Fort Smith
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).