Flock & ALPR Cameras in Bradenton, Florida
Volunteers have reported 3 automated license plate readers in and around Bradenton — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 18 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Bradenton
The readers mapped around Bradenton break down as 2 Flock Safety, 1 Leonardo. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Jan 2026.
- 13th Avenue West — 1 reader
- Riverwalk Gateway — 1 reader
- 14th Street West — 1 reader
Bradenton in the Manatee County picture
Manatee County has 120 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,055 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 416,020 residents and 2,437 road miles. By road density that is 0.05 cameras per road mile, in the top 12.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 3 traffic.
What’s watching Bradenton
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 Bradenton — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Bradenton (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Bradenton
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- Is Manatee affected by Florida’s new license-plate camera ban? What deputies say
- Officer arrested after abusing Flock surveillance cameras, Sarasota police say
What you can do in Bradenton
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 Bradenton
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).