Flock & ALPR Cameras in Kent Acres, Delaware
Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around Kent Acres — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 4 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Kent Acres, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Kent Acres itself.
The rest sit in Dover (4).
3 of them name an operator in the record: Delaware State Police (2), Dover Police Department (1). 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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No new reports near Kent Acres in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 16:21 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Kent Acres
The readers mapped around Kent Acres break down as 4 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Delaware State Police, Dover Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2025; the most recent in Mar 2026.
- South Bay Road — 2 readers
- South Dupont Highway — 1 reader
- President Drive — 1 reader
Kent Acres in the Kent County picture
Kent County has 77 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #689 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 185,043 residents and 1,716 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 13.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 4 traffic. Operators named on the record: Delaware State Police (2), Dover Police Department (1).
What’s watching Kent Acres
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 Kent Acres — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Kent Acres (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Kent Acres
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 Kent Acres
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).