Flock & ALPR Cameras in Van Buren, Arkansas
Volunteers have reported 23 automated license plate readers in and around Van Buren — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 23 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Van Buren, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 22 of them sit inside Van Buren itself.
The rest sit in Fort Smith (1).
4 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (4). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 1 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 26 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 26 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 Van Buren
The readers mapped around Van Buren break down as 15 Flock Safety, 2 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in May 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- East Rena Road — 4 readers
- I 40;US 71 — 2 readers
- North Fayetteville Road — 2 readers
- Kibler Road — 2 readers
- North 6th Street — 1 reader
- Alma Highway — 1 reader
- South 6th Street — 1 reader
- North Plaza Court — 1 reader
- North 50th — 1 reader
- Pointer Trail — 1 reader
- AR 59 — 1 reader
Van Buren AR PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Van Buren AR PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 31 other agencies.
Van Buren in the Crawford County picture
Crawford County has 17 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,086 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 60,792 residents and 1,434 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 39.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 13 traffic, 1 street. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (4).
What’s watching Van Buren
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 Van Buren — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Van Buren (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Van Buren
- 5 new license plate readers reported around Van Buren, AR
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Van Buren, 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 Van Buren
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 Van Buren
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).