Flock & ALPR Cameras in Sarasota, Florida
Volunteers have reported 22 automated license plate readers in and around Sarasota — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Oct 7 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Sarasota
The readers mapped around Sarasota break down as 19 Flock Safety, 3 Leonardo, 1 Genetec. Named operators in the reports: SarasotaPoliceDepartment. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- John Ringling Boulevard — 5 readers
- South Gulf of Mexico Drive — 3 readers
- Fruitville Road — 2 readers
- 10th Street — 2 readers
- Bird Key Drive — 2 readers
- 25th Street — 2 readers
- Tamiami Trail — 1 reader
- Mound Street — 1 reader
- North Euclid Avenue — 1 reader
- North Tuttle Avenue — 1 reader
- Washington Boulevard — 1 reader
- North Lime Avenue — 1 reader
+ 3 more streets and roads mapped around Sarasota — all on the live map above.
Sarasota FL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Sarasota FL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 128 other agencies.
Sarasota in the Sarasota County picture
Sarasota County has 202 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #625 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 449,011 residents and 3,190 road miles. By road density that is 0.06 cameras per road mile, in the top 9.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 22 traffic. Operators named on the record: SarasotaPoliceDepartment (1).
Camera activity around Sarasota, last 30 days
6 newly reported in our hourly change log for Sarasota. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.
What’s watching Sarasota
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 Sarasota — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Sarasota (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Sarasota
- 3 license plate readers reported removed near Sarasota, FL
- Sarasota Letters to the Editor week of September 4, 2026
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Sarasota, FL
- Sarasota County man accused of cutting oak at fatal crash site
What you can do in Sarasota
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 Sarasota
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).