Flock & ALPR Cameras in West Samoset, Florida
Volunteers have reported 9 automated license plate readers in and around West Samoset — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 9 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of West Samoset, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside West Samoset itself.
The rest sit in South Bradenton (9).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near West Samoset in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:13 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in West Samoset
The readers mapped around West Samoset break down as 9 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- 9th Street East — 3 readers
- Cortez Road — 2 readers
- 1st Street East — 1 reader
- 30th Avenue East — 1 reader
- 5th Street East — 1 reader
- 44th Avenue East — 1 reader
West Samoset in the Manatee County picture
Manatee County has 120 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,055 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 416,020 residents and 2,437 road miles. By road density that is 0.05 cameras per road mile, in the top 12.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 8 traffic.
What’s watching West Samoset
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 West Samoset — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to West Samoset (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in West Samoset
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 West Samoset
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).