Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lake Butler, Florida
Volunteers have reported 9 automated license plate readers in and around Lake Butler — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 20 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Lake Butler, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Lake Butler itself.
The rest sit in Worthington Springs (3).
16 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Lake Butler in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 19:24 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
📷 8 new license plate readers just reported around Lake Butler, FL. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #LakeButler
Where the cameras are in Lake Butler
The readers mapped around Lake Butler break down as 23 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- SR 16 — 10 readers
- SR 100 — 4 readers
- SR 121 — 4 readers
- SR 238 — 1 reader
- Main Street — 1 reader
- Northeast 242nd Lane — 1 reader
- CR 199 — 1 reader
- Southeast County Road 18 — 1 reader
Lake Butler in the Union County picture
Union County has 9 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #401 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 18.7% nationally. That’s across 15,551 residents and 763 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 39.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 22 traffic.
Camera activity around Lake Butler, last 30 days
2 newly reported, 2 removed in our hourly change log for Lake Butler. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.
What’s watching Lake Butler
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 Lake Butler — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Lake Butler (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Lake Butler
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Lake Butler, FL
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Lake Butler, FL
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Lake Butler, FL
- 8 new license plate readers reported around Lake Butler, FL
What you can do in Lake Butler
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.
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Cameras near Lake Butler
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).