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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Whitfield, Florida

Volunteers have reported 10 automated license plate readers in and around Whitfield — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 10 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Whitfield, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Whitfield itself.

The rest sit in South Bradenton (5), Sarasota (3).

2 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.

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

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10
Reported cameras nearby
#330
of 697 Florida cities tracked
0.1%
of Florida’s reported cameras
Live camera map 10 reported cameras around Whitfield, 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 Whitfield

No new reports near Whitfield in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 14:59 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Whitfield

The readers mapped around Whitfield break down as 8 Flock Safety, 2 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.

  • 9th Street East — 3 readers
  • Tallevast Road — 2 readers
  • Tamiami Trail — 1 reader
  • 63rd Avenue East — 1 reader
  • 2nd Street West — 1 reader
  • Caples Drive — 1 reader
  • College Drive — 1 reader

Whitfield 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 10 traffic.

What’s watching Whitfield

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

The latest around Whitfield

What you can do in Whitfield

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 Whitfield

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