Flock & ALPR Cameras in Palm Bay, Florida
Volunteers have reported 19 automated license plate readers in and around Palm Bay — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Paused
Palm Bay is on the record here. Palm Bay, FL suspended its Flock Safety cameras. Cited reasons: Vendor permitting / installation compliance; Council-directed review; Resident privacy / trust concerns.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 19 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Palm Bay, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 18 of them sit inside Palm Bay itself.
The rest sit in Melbourne (1).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (2). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Palm Bay in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Palm Bay
The readers mapped around Palm Bay break down as 30 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Malabar Road Southeast — 4 readers
- San Filippo Drive Southeast — 3 readers
- Robert J Conlan Boulevard Northeast — 2 readers
- Palm Bay Road Northeast — 2 readers
- Corporate Circle Southeast — 2 readers
- Lane #2 — 2 readers
- Lipscomb Street — 2 readers
- Community College Parkway Southeast — 2 readers
- Monroe Street — 2 readers
- Pinewood Drive Northeast — 1 reader
- Hatcher Street Southeast — 1 reader
- Babcock Street Southeast — 1 reader
+ 6 more streets and roads mapped around Palm Bay — all on the live map above.
Palm Bay FL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Palm Bay FL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 5 other agencies.
Palm Bay in the Brevard County picture
Brevard County has 208 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #921 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 620,533 residents and 3,515 road miles. By road density that is 0.06 cameras per road mile, in the top 10.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 25 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (2).
Camera activity around Palm Bay, last 30 days
2 newly reported, 10 removed in our hourly change log for Palm Bay. Latest change logged Sep 10, 2026.
What’s watching Palm Bay
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 Palm Bay — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Palm Bay (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Palm Bay
- 5 license plate readers reported removed near Palm Bay, FL
- 5 license plate readers reported removed near Palm Bay, FL
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Palm Bay, FL
- 7 license plate readers reported removed near Palm Bay, FL
What you can do in Palm Bay
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 Palm Bay
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).