Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lake Wales, Florida
Volunteers have reported 13 automated license plate readers in and around Lake Wales — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Lake Wales in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 00:33 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Lake Wales
The readers mapped around Lake Wales break down as 13 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2026; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- US 27 — 3 readers
- SR 60 — 2 readers
- Washington Avenue — 2 readers
- North Scenic Highway — 1 reader
- South Scenic Highway — 1 reader
- Lewis Griffin Road — 1 reader
- Domaris Avenue — 1 reader
- B Street — 1 reader
- Burns Avenue — 1 reader
Lake Wales FL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Lake Wales FL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 52 other agencies.
Lake Wales in the Polk County picture
Polk County has 306 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #721 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 760,961 residents and 4,544 road miles. By road density that is 0.07 cameras per road mile, in the top 8.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 12 traffic, 1 parking_entrance.
What’s watching Lake Wales
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 Wales — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Lake Wales (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Lake Wales
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 Lake Wales
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).