Flock & ALPR Cameras in Medulla, Florida
Volunteers have reported 15 automated license plate readers in and around Medulla — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 15 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Medulla, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Medulla itself.
The rest sit in Lakeland (5).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Polk County Sheriff (1), lakelandpolicedepartment (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
10 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 Medulla in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 12:27 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Medulla
The readers mapped around Medulla break down as 15 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: lakelandpolicedepartment, Polk County Sheriff. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- South Florida Avenue — 5 readers
- Harden Boulevard — 4 readers
- Old Road 37 — 3 readers
- West Pipkin Road — 2 readers
- CR 540A — 1 reader
Medulla 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 15 traffic. Operators named on the record: lakelandpolicedepartment (1), Polk County Sheriff (1).
What’s watching Medulla
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 Medulla — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Medulla (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Medulla
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 Medulla
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).