Flock & ALPR Cameras in Alachua, Florida
Volunteers have reported 21 automated license plate readers in and around Alachua — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Cameras Removed
Alachua is on the record here. City of Alachua removed its license plate reader cameras after a DeSantis order.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 21 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Alachua, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 5 of them sit inside Alachua itself.
The rest sit in Gainesville (2).
2 of them name an operator in the record: ACSO (1), [ACSO] (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
14 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
- Sep 17 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Alachua
The readers mapped around Alachua break down as 18 Flock Safety, 3 Axis Communications, 2 Axon Enterprise. Named operators in the reports: [ACSO], ACSO. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Northwest 140th Street — 4 readers
- Northwest 83rd Street — 4 readers
- ML King Memorial Highway — 2 readers
- Northwest 39th Avenue — 2 readers
- West Newberry Road — 2 readers
- Northwest 46th Avenue — 2 readers
- Southwest 8th Avenue — 1 reader
- SR 235 — 1 reader
- Northwest 147th Drive — 1 reader
- Northwest 118th Avenue — 1 reader
- Northwest 139th Way — 1 reader
- Northwest 144th Terrace — 1 reader
+ 2 more streets and roads mapped around Alachua — all on the live map above.
Alachua FL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Alachua FL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 11 other agencies.
Alachua in the Alachua County picture
Alachua County has 164 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #394 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 18.4% nationally. That’s across 281,751 residents and 3,611 road miles. By road density that is 0.05 cameras per road mile, in the top 13.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 20 traffic. Operators named on the record: [ACSO] (1), ACSO (1).
Camera activity around Alachua, last 30 days
4 newly reported, 3 removed in our hourly change log for Alachua. Latest change logged Aug 29, 2026.
What’s watching Alachua
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 Alachua — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Alachua (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Alachua
- 4 license plate readers reported removed near Alachua, FL
- City of Alachua removes license plate reader cameras after DeSantis order
- GPD suspends use of automated license plate readers
- As Florida prepares to remove Flock cameras from state roads, Alachua County neighbors share mixed opinions
What you can do in Alachua
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 Alachua
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).