Flock & ALPR Cameras in Hot Springs, Arkansas
Volunteers have reported 27 automated license plate readers in and around Hot Springs — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Aug 18, 2026 On the agenda: Hot Springs meeting — ALPR (Aug 18)
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- Oct 7 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
📷 6 new license plate readers just reported around Hot Springs, AR. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #HotSprings
Where the cameras are in Hot Springs
The readers mapped around Hot Springs break down as 26 Flock Safety, 1 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Central Avenue — 4 readers
- West Grand Avenue — 3 readers
- Oaklawn — 2 readers
- Cornerstone Lane — 2 readers
- East Grand Avenue — 2 readers
- Cornerstone Boulevard — 2 readers
- 3rd Street — 1 reader
- Barkley Place — 1 reader
- Interior Court — 1 reader
- Spring Street — 1 reader
- Malvern Avenue — 1 reader
- Pakis Street — 1 reader
+ 6 more streets and roads mapped around Hot Springs — all on the live map above.
Hot Springs AR PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Hot Springs AR PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 6 other agencies.
Hot Springs in the Garland County picture
Garland County has 17 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,495 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 100,062 residents and 2,484 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 53.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 27 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (1).
Camera activity around Hot Springs, last 30 days
11 newly reported in our hourly change log for Hot Springs. Latest change logged Aug 31, 2026.
What’s watching Hot Springs
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 Hot Springs — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Hot Springs (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Hot Springs
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Hot Springs, AR
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Hot Springs, AR
- On the agenda: Hot Springs meeting — ALPR (Aug 18)
- 6 new license plate readers reported around Hot Springs, AR
What you can do in Hot Springs
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 Hot Springs
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).