Flock & ALPR Cameras in South Sarasota, Florida
Volunteers have reported 6 automated license plate readers in and around South Sarasota — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 6 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of South Sarasota, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside South Sarasota itself.
The rest sit in Sarasota (5), Siesta Key (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near South Sarasota in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 9, 04:02 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in South Sarasota
The readers mapped around South Sarasota break down as 5 Flock Safety, 1 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Siesta Drive — 2 readers
- South Osprey Avenue — 2 readers
- South Tamiami Trail — 1 reader
- Proctor Road — 1 reader
South 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 5 traffic.
Camera activity around South Sarasota, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for South Sarasota. Latest change logged Aug 27, 2026.
What’s watching South 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 South Sarasota — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to South Sarasota (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in South 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 South Sarasota
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).