Flock & ALPR Cameras in Rock Island, Florida
Volunteers have reported 16 automated license plate readers in and around Rock Island — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 16 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Rock Island, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Rock Island itself.
The rest sit in Fort Lauderdale (10), Lauderdale Lakes (2), Lauderhill (1), Oakland Park (1).
2 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 22 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Rock Island
The readers mapped around Rock Island break down as 11 Flock Safety, 2 Motorola Solutions, 1 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Northwest 21st Avenue — 3 readers
- Northwest 19th Street — 2 readers
- Northwest 31st Avenue — 2 readers
- West Oakland Park Boulevard — 2 readers
- Northwest 15th Avenue — 2 readers
- Northwest 32nd Avenue — 1 reader
- Northwest 18th Avenue — 1 reader
- Northwest 28th Avenue — 1 reader
- Northwest 26th Street — 1 reader
Rock Island in the Broward County picture
Broward County has 863 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #631 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,946,127 residents and 4,711 road miles. By road density that is 0.18 cameras per road mile, in the top 1.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 15 traffic.
Camera activity around Rock Island, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Rock Island. Latest change logged Aug 21, 2026.
What’s watching Rock Island
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 Rock Island — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Rock Island (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Rock Island
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 Rock Island
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).