Flock & ALPR Cameras in Panama City Beach, Florida
Volunteers have reported 32 automated license plate readers in and around Panama City Beach — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 33 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Panama City Beach, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 29 of them sit inside Panama City Beach itself.
The rest sit in Upper Grand Lagoon (2).
8 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (5), Panama City Bch, FL (3). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
2 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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Every record for this area on the Docket → · nothing is ever deleted.
No new reports near Panama City Beach in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 21:33 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Panama City Beach
The readers mapped around Panama City Beach break down as 32 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's, Panama City Bch, FL. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2023; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Alf Coleman Road — 4 readers
- Front Beach Road — 4 readers
- Panama City Beach Parkway — 3 readers
- Richard Jackson Boulevard — 3 readers
- Hutchison Boulevard — 2 readers
- Nautilus Street — 2 readers
- North Glades Trail — 2 readers
- South Thomas Drive — 1 reader
- Oleander Drive — 1 reader
- Thomas Drive — 1 reader
- Panama City Beach — 1 reader
- Hibiscus Street — 1 reader
+ 8 more streets and roads mapped around Panama City Beach — all on the live map above.
Panama City Beach FL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Panama City Beach FL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 44 other agencies.
Panama City Beach in the Bay County picture
Bay County has 165 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #133 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 6.2% nationally. That’s across 181,368 residents and 2,566 road miles. By road density that is 0.06 cameras per road mile, in the top 9.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 33 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (5), Panama City Bch, FL (3).
Camera activity around Panama City Beach, last 30 days
1 newly reported, 3 removed in our hourly change log for Panama City Beach. Latest change logged Sep 4, 2026.
What’s watching Panama City Beach
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 Panama City Beach — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Panama City Beach (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Panama City Beach
- 3 license plate readers reported removed near Panama City Beach, FL
- Bay County law enforcement agencies cut ties with Flock Safety cameras
- Shark and stingray face off near Panama City Beach shore
- On the agenda: Panama City Beach City Council - Apr 11, 2024 — SURVEILLANCE CAMERA (Apr 11)
What you can do in Panama City Beach
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 Panama City Beach
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).