Flock & ALPR Cameras in Southgate, Florida
Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around Southgate — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 4 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Southgate, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Southgate itself.
The rest sit in Sarasota (3).
1 of them name an operator in the record: SarasotaPoliceDepartment (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Southgate in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 20:25 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Southgate
The readers mapped around Southgate break down as 4 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: SarasotaPoliceDepartment. Every report here dates to Dec 2025.
- Beneva Road — 1 reader
- South Tuttle Avenue — 1 reader
- Bahia Vista Street — 1 reader
- South Lockwood Ridge Road — 1 reader
Southgate 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 3 traffic, 1 street. Operators named on the record: SarasotaPoliceDepartment (1).
What’s watching Southgate
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 Southgate — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Southgate (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Southgate
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 Southgate
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).