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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida

Volunteers have reported 24 automated license plate readers in and around Santa Rosa Beach — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

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of Florida’s reported cameras

Live camera map 24 reported cameras around Santa Rosa Beach, 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 Santa Rosa Beach

+0 this week +12 last 30 days −1 removed

Sep 28 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Sep 20 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Sep 14 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Sep 13 Flock Safety camera newly reported

Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.

Where the cameras are in Santa Rosa Beach

The readers mapped around Santa Rosa Beach break down as 13 Flock Safety, 2 Leonardo, 2 Genetec. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.

US Highway 98 West — 5 readers
North County Highway 393 — 2 readers
South County Highway 83 — 1 reader
US 331 — 1 reader
Hackberry Way — 1 reader
Gulfview Circle — 1 reader
South County Highway 393 — 1 reader
Bishop-Tolbert Road — 1 reader
West County Highway 30A — 1 reader
Hogtown Bayou Lane — 1 reader
Seahawks Avenue — 1 reader
J D Miller Road — 1 reader

Santa Rosa Beach in the Walton County picture

Walton County has 122 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #39 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 1.8% nationally. That’s across 79,846 residents and 2,618 road miles. By road density that is 0.05 cameras per road mile, in the top 13% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 12 traffic.

Camera activity around Santa Rosa Beach, last 30 days

8 newly reported, 3 removed in our hourly change log for Santa Rosa Beach. Latest change logged Sep 11, 2026.

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

The latest around Santa Rosa Beach

What you can do in Santa Rosa 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 Santa Rosa Beach

Seaside (33) Miramar Beach (27) Freeport (25) Destin (13)

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