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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Volunteers have reported 36 automated license plate readers in and around Fort Lauderdale — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

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36
Reported cameras nearby
#41
of 697 Florida cities tracked
0.4%
of Florida’s reported cameras
Live camera map 36 reported cameras around Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Fort Lauderdale
+0 this week +1 last 30 days
  • Sep 25 Flock Safety camera newly reported

Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.

Where the cameras are in Fort Lauderdale

The readers mapped around Fort Lauderdale break down as 29 Flock Safety, 4 Motorola Solutions, 1 other. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.

  • Southwest 4th Avenue — 3 readers
  • North Andrews Avenue — 2 readers
  • Davie Boulevard — 2 readers
  • West Broward Boulevard — 2 readers
  • South Andrews Avenue — 2 readers
  • Southeast 3rd Avenue — 2 readers
  • Southeast 17th Street — 2 readers
  • East Las Olas Boulevard — 2 readers
  • Northeast 3rd Avenue — 2 readers
  • Southwest 15th Avenue — 2 readers
  • East Broward Boulevard — 2 readers
  • Northwest 6th Street — 1 reader

+ 11 more streets and roads mapped around Fort Lauderdale — all on the live map above.

Fort Lauderdale FL PD and the sharing network

Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Fort Lauderdale FL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 7 other agencies.

Fort Lauderdale in the Broward County picture

Broward County has 863 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #631 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,946,127 residents and 4,711 road miles. By road density that is 0.18 cameras per road mile, in the top 1.6% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 35 traffic.

Camera activity around Fort Lauderdale, last 30 days

8 newly reported in our hourly change log for Fort Lauderdale. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.

What’s watching Fort Lauderdale

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 Fort Lauderdale — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Fort Lauderdale (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

The latest around Fort Lauderdale

What you can do in Fort Lauderdale

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.

Cameras near Fort Lauderdale

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).