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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Pretty Bayou, Florida

Volunteers have reported 19 automated license plate readers in and around Pretty Bayou — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 20 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Pretty Bayou, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Pretty Bayou itself.

The rest sit in Panama City (20).

4 of them name an operator in the record: Panama City, FL (4). 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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Reported cameras nearby
#163
of 697 Florida cities tracked
0.2%
of Florida’s reported cameras
Live camera map 19 reported cameras around Pretty Bayou, Florida
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Pretty Bayou

No new reports near Pretty Bayou in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 12:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Pretty Bayou

The readers mapped around Pretty Bayou break down as 14 Flock Safety, 9 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Panama City, FL. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2023; the most recent in Aug 2026.

  • West 23rd Street — 7 readers
  • Beck Avenue — 4 readers
  • Saint Andrews Boulevard — 2 readers
  • West 15th Street — 2 readers
  • Lisenby Avenue — 2 readers
  • 16th Street — 1 reader
  • US 98 — 1 reader
  • Jenks Avenue — 1 reader
  • Frankford Avenue — 1 reader
  • Michigan Avenue — 1 reader
  • West 19th Street — 1 reader

Pretty Bayou 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 16 traffic, 7 street. Operators named on the record: Panama City, FL (4).

What’s watching Pretty Bayou

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 Pretty Bayou — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Pretty Bayou (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

The latest around Pretty Bayou

What you can do in Pretty Bayou

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.

Cameras near Pretty Bayou

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).