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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Venice Gardens, Florida

Volunteers have reported 18 automated license plate readers in and around Venice Gardens — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 20 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Venice Gardens, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 5 of them sit inside Venice Gardens itself.

The rest sit in South Venice (5), Venice (3).

7 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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18
Reported cameras nearby
#177
of 697 Florida cities tracked
0.2%
of Florida’s reported cameras
Live camera map 18 reported cameras around Venice Gardens, Florida
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Venice Gardens

No new reports near Venice Gardens in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 12:31 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Venice Gardens

The readers mapped around Venice Gardens break down as 20 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.

  • Jacaranda Boulevard — 5 readers
  • Tamiami Trail — 5 readers
  • Woodmere Park Boulevard — 3 readers
  • East Venice Avenue — 2 readers
  • Pinebrook Road — 1 reader
  • Center Road — 1 reader
  • Banyan Drive — 1 reader
  • Commercial Court — 1 reader
  • Executive Drive — 1 reader

Venice Gardens 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 20 traffic.

Camera activity around Venice Gardens, last 30 days

5 newly reported in our hourly change log for Venice Gardens. Latest change logged Aug 31, 2026.

What’s watching Venice Gardens

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 Venice Gardens — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Venice Gardens (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

The latest around Venice Gardens

What you can do in Venice Gardens

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.

Cameras near Venice Gardens

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).