Flock & ALPR Cameras in Montrose, Colorado
Volunteers have reported 35 automated license plate readers in and around Montrose — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Montrose in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 18:27 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Montrose
The readers mapped around Montrose break down as 33 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make, 1 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Jul 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- East Main Street — 5 readers
- Ogden Road — 4 readers
- Chipeta Road — 3 readers
- South Townsend Avenue — 2 readers
- North Townsend Avenue — 2 readers
- Spring Creek Road — 2 readers
- East Oak Grove Road — 2 readers
- North 1st Street — 1 reader
- Montrose — 1 reader
- Riverbottom Drive — 1 reader
- South Rio Grande Avenue — 1 reader
- Locust Street — 1 reader
+ 10 more streets and roads mapped around Montrose — all on the live map above.
Montrose CO PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Montrose CO PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 10 other agencies.
Montrose in the Montrose County picture
Montrose County has 29 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #286 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 13.3% nationally. That’s across 43,272 residents and 2,731 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 42.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 22 traffic, 1 street.
Camera activity around Montrose, last 30 days
6 newly reported in our hourly change log for Montrose. Latest change logged Aug 27, 2026.
What’s watching Montrose
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 Montrose — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Montrose (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Montrose
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Montrose, CO
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Montrose, CO
What you can do in Montrose
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 Montrose
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).