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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Pea Ridge, Arkansas

No cameras reported in and around Pea Ridge — yet. That usually means nobody has checked, not that the roads are clear. Be the one who looks.

On the record · Contract Canceled

Pea Ridge is on the record here. Pea Ridge, AR terminated its Flock Safety contract covering 7 cameras. Cited reasons: Public backlash; Privacy / surveillance concerns; ROI / time cost.

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Zero reported ≠ zero cameras

Help put Pea Ridge on the map

The camera map is built by volunteers, one report at a time — and nobody has surveyed Pea Ridge yet. ALPRs look like small gray cameras on poles, often solar-powered, near intersections and shopping centers. Spot one? Reporting takes about a minute.

Live camera map The map around Pea Ridge, Arkansas
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Pea Ridge

No new reports near Pea Ridge in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 11, 12:20 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Pea Ridge

The readers mapped around Pea Ridge break down as 2 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Apr 2026.

  • Hayden Road — 1 reader
  • Pickens Road — 1 reader

Pea Ridge AR PD and the sharing network

Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Pea Ridge AR PD runs 7 cameras of its own, has logged 12 plate-database searches, has captured 69,332 vehicle records. Its network connects to 1,427 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.

Connected agencies include: Abilene TX PD, Acworth GA PD, Ada County ID SO, Ada OK PD, Adairville KY PD, Adams County IL SO, Addison IL PD, Addison TX PD.

Pea Ridge 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 Pea Ridge, last 30 days

5 removed in our hourly change log for Pea Ridge. Latest change logged Sep 11, 2026.

Why this page exists

Automated license plate readers are spreading town by town, usually with no public vote — volunteers have already mapped 1,082 across Arkansas. Cameras often arrive quietly in towns exactly like Pea Ridge: a council consent-agenda item, then poles by the grocery store. Learn what they look like, check the roads you drive daily, and this page will update as reports come in.

The latest around Pea Ridge

What you can do in Pea Ridge

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.

Cameras near Pea Ridge

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).