Flock & ALPR Cameras in Clearwater, Florida
Volunteers have reported 18 automated license plate readers in and around Clearwater — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 14 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Clearwater
The readers mapped around Clearwater break down as 17 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Gulf to Bay Boulevard — 3 readers
- North Betty Lane — 3 readers
- Gulf Boulevard — 2 readers
- Drew Street — 2 readers
- South Belcher Road — 2 readers
- Court Street — 1 reader
- Causeway Boulevard — 1 reader
- Island Way — 1 reader
- Douglas Avenue — 1 reader
- Harbor Drive — 1 reader
Clearwater FL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Clearwater FL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 75 other agencies.
Clearwater in the Pinellas County picture
Pinellas County has 223 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,252 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 960,565 residents and 3,047 road miles. By road density that is 0.07 cameras per road mile, in the top 7.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 16 traffic, 1 street.
Camera activity around Clearwater, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Clearwater. Latest change logged Sep 5, 2026.
What’s watching Clearwater
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 Clearwater — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Clearwater (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Clearwater
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 Clearwater
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).