Flock & ALPR Cameras in Bear, Delaware
Volunteers have reported 35 automated license plate readers in and around Bear — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 35 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Bear, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 11 of them sit inside Bear itself.
The rest sit in Christiana (16).
7 of them name an operator in the record: New Castle County PD (6), New Castle County Police Department (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
8 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 6 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Oct 5 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Oct 4 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 25 Axon Enterprise camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Bear
The readers mapped around Bear break down as 32 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: New Castle County PD, New Castle County Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- Mall Road — 16 readers
- Rivers End Drive — 2 readers
- Songsmith Drive — 2 readers
- East Songsmith Drive — 2 readers
- Old Forge Road — 2 readers
- Wellington Drive — 1 reader
- Newtown Road — 1 reader
- Freedom Road — 1 reader
- Carvel Lane — 1 reader
- Brookmont Drive — 1 reader
- Smalleys Dam Road — 1 reader
- Stone Place — 1 reader
+ 1 more streets and roads mapped around Bear — all on the live map above.
Bear in the New Castle County picture
New Castle County has 217 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #793 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 573,030 residents and 2,346 road miles. By road density that is 0.09 cameras per road mile, in the top 5.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 25 traffic, 3 entrance, 1 street. Operators named on the record: New Castle County PD (6), New Castle County Police Department (1).
What’s watching Bear
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 Bear — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Bear (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Bear
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Bear, DE
- 6 license plate readers reported removed near Bear, DE
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Bear, DE
- 9 new license plate readers reported around Bear, DE
What you can do in Bear
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 Bear
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).