Flock & ALPR Cameras in Hawthorne, Florida
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Hawthorne — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 2 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Hawthorne, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Hawthorne itself.
The rest sit in Interlachen (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Hawthorne in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 18:52 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Hawthorne
The readers mapped around Hawthorne break down as 2 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2025; the most recent in Jun 2025.
- SR 20 — 1 reader
- Hawthorne Road — 1 reader
Hawthorne in the Alachua County picture
Alachua County has 164 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #394 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 18.4% nationally. That’s across 281,751 residents and 3,611 road miles. By road density that is 0.05 cameras per road mile, in the top 13.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 1 traffic, 1 street.
What’s watching Hawthorne
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 Hawthorne — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Hawthorne (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Hawthorne
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 Hawthorne
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).