Flock & ALPR Cameras in St. Petersburg, Florida
Volunteers have reported 46 automated license plate readers in and around St. Petersburg — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 46 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of St. Petersburg, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside St. Petersburg itself.
The rest sit in Saint Petersburg (46).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 14 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 14 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 14 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 14 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
📷 71 new license plate readers just reported around St. Petersburg, FL. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #StPetersburg
Where the cameras are in St. Petersburg
The readers mapped around St. Petersburg break down as 45 Flock Safety, 1 Neology, Inc.. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- 22nd Avenue North — 4 readers
- 25th Street North — 3 readers
- 3rd Street South — 3 readers
- Burlington Avenue North — 3 readers
- Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Street South — 2 readers
- Pinellas Trail — 2 readers
- 5th Avenue South — 2 readers
- Dartmouth Avenue North — 2 readers
- Beach Drive Southeast — 2 readers
- 1st Street Southeast — 1 reader
- Snell Isle Boulevard Northeast — 1 reader
- 2nd Avenue Northeast — 1 reader
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around St. Petersburg — all on the live map above.
St. Petersburg FL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, St. Petersburg FL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 12 other agencies.
St. Petersburg in the Pinellas County picture
Pinellas County has 223 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,252 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 960,565 residents and 3,047 road miles. By road density that is 0.07 cameras per road mile, in the top 7.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 33 traffic, 1 street.
Camera activity around St. Petersburg, last 30 days
8 newly reported in our hourly change log for St. Petersburg. Latest change logged Sep 6, 2026.
What’s watching St. Petersburg
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 St. Petersburg — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to St. Petersburg (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around St. Petersburg
- St. Petersburg’s “Flock blocker” ends camera protest over health concerns
- 70 license plate readers reported removed near St. Petersburg, FL
- 71 new license plate readers reported around St. Petersburg, FL
- 3 new license plate readers reported around St. Petersburg, FL
What you can do in St. Petersburg
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 St. Petersburg
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).