Flock & ALPR Cameras in Samoset, Florida
Volunteers have reported 12 automated license plate readers in and around Samoset — 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 Samoset, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Samoset itself.
The rest sit in South Bradenton (3), Bradenton (1).
8 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 Samoset in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 19:21 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Samoset
The readers mapped around Samoset break down as 11 Flock Safety, 1 Leonardo. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- 44th Avenue East — 4 readers
- 52nd Place East — 3 readers
- Lockwood Ridge Road — 1 reader
- Lakewood Ranch Boulevard — 1 reader
- 26th Avenue East — 1 reader
- 57th Avenue East — 1 reader
- 27th Street East — 1 reader
Samoset 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.
Camera activity around Samoset, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Samoset. Latest change logged Aug 25, 2026.
What’s watching Samoset
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 Samoset — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Samoset (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Samoset
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 Samoset
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).