Flock & ALPR Cameras in Arcadia, Florida
Volunteers have reported 20 automated license plate readers in and around Arcadia — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 18 License plate reader newly reported
- Sep 6 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 6 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Arcadia
The readers mapped around Arcadia break down as 17 Flock Safety, 2 Motorola Solutions, 2 Genetec. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- SR 70 — 5 readers
- CR 661 — 4 readers
- Northeast Turner Avenue — 2 readers
- Brevard Avenue — 2 readers
- CR 769 — 1 reader
- Mosley Road — 1 reader
- South DeSoto Avenue — 1 reader
- Northwest Pine Level Street — 1 reader
- Southwest Martin Luther King Junior Street — 1 reader
- FL 72 — 1 reader
- Hog Bay Avenue — 1 reader
- US 17 — 1 reader
Arcadia in the DeSoto County picture
DeSoto County has 20 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #405 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 18.9% nationally. That’s across 34,719 residents and 1,175 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 32.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 18 traffic, 1 street.
Camera activity around Arcadia, last 30 days
5 newly reported in our hourly change log for Arcadia. Latest change logged Sep 6, 2026.
What’s watching Arcadia
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 Arcadia — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Arcadia (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Arcadia
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Arcadia, FL
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Arcadia, FL
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Arcadia, FL
What you can do in Arcadia
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 Arcadia
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).