Flock & ALPR Cameras in Margate, Florida
Volunteers have reported 21 automated license plate readers in and around Margate — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 21 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Margate, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 12 of them sit inside Margate itself.
The rest sit in Coral Springs (9).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Margate in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 23:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Margate
The readers mapped around Margate break down as 20 Flock Safety, 1 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- State Road 7 — 4 readers
- West Sample Road — 3 readers
- Turtle Creek Drive — 3 readers
- Royal Palm Boulevard — 2 readers
- Rock Island Road — 2 readers
- Margate — 2 readers
- Holiday Springs Boulevard — 1 reader
- West Atlantic Boulevard — 1 reader
- Lakewood Circle — 1 reader
- Coconut Creek Parkway — 1 reader
- Woodside Drive — 1 reader
Margate FL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Margate FL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 6 other agencies.
Margate 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 19 traffic.
What’s watching Margate
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 Margate — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Margate (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Margate
What you can do in Margate
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 Margate
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).