Flock & ALPR Cameras in Memphis, Florida
Volunteers have reported 12 automated license plate readers in and around Memphis — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 12 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Memphis, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 3 of them sit inside Memphis itself.
The rest sit in Palmetto (4).
5 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 Memphis in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:10 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Memphis
The readers mapped around Memphis break down as 11 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- 16th Avenue East — 3 readers
- Tamiami Trail — 3 readers
- 21st Street East — 1 reader
- US 19 — 1 reader
- 22nd Lane East — 1 reader
- 69th Street East — 1 reader
- 17th Street East — 1 reader
- 23rd Street East — 1 reader
Memphis in the Manatee County picture
Manatee County has 120 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,055 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 416,020 residents and 2,437 road miles. By road density that is 0.05 cameras per road mile, in the top 12.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 12 traffic.
What’s watching Memphis
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 Memphis — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Memphis (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Memphis
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 Memphis
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).