Flock & ALPR Cameras in El Portal, Florida
Volunteers have reported 11 automated license plate readers in and around El Portal — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 11 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of El Portal, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside El Portal itself.
The rest sit in Miami (10).
2 of them name an operator in the record: CVS (2). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near El Portal in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in El Portal
The readers mapped around El Portal break down as 11 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: CVS. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Biscayne Boulevard — 4 readers
- I 95 — 2 readers
- Northeast 2nd Avenue — 1 reader
- Northeast 79th Street — 1 reader
- Northeast 5th Court — 1 reader
- Northwest 62nd Street — 1 reader
- Northwest 67th Street — 1 reader
El Portal in the Miami-Dade County picture
Miami-Dade County has 372 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,599 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 2,685,296 residents and 5,085 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 11 traffic. Operators named on the record: CVS (2).
What’s watching El Portal
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 El Portal — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to El Portal (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in El Portal
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 El Portal
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).