Flock & ALPR Cameras in The Meadows, Florida
Volunteers have reported 59 automated license plate readers in and around The Meadows — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near The Meadows in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:11 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in The Meadows
The readers mapped around The Meadows break down as 53 Flock Safety, 4 Axon Enterprise, 2 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- University Town Center Drive — 13 readers
- DeSoto Road — 8 readers
- North Cattlemen Road — 7 readers
- University Parkway — 6 readers
- Cooper Creek Boulevard — 5 readers
- Manatee County — 4 readers
- Honore Avenue — 3 readers
- 17th Street — 3 readers
- Tourist Center Drive — 2 readers
- Lakewood Ranch Boulevard — 2 readers
- SR 70 — 2 readers
- 59th Avenue East — 2 readers
+ 3 more streets and roads mapped around The Meadows — all on the live map above.
The Meadows 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 54 traffic.
Camera activity around The Meadows, last 30 days
6 newly reported, 3 removed in our hourly change log for The Meadows. Latest change logged Sep 3, 2026.
What’s watching The Meadows
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 The Meadows — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to The Meadows (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around The Meadows
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near The Meadows, FL
- 4 new license plate readers reported around The Meadows, FL
- 3 new license plate readers reported around The Meadows, FL
What you can do in The Meadows
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.
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Cameras near The Meadows
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).