Flock & ALPR Cameras in Willow Oak, Florida
Volunteers have reported 10 automated license plate readers in and around Willow Oak — 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 Willow Oak, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Willow Oak itself.
The rest sit in Lakeland (1).
9 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Willow Oak 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 Willow Oak
The readers mapped around Willow Oak break down as 10 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- West State Road 60 — 3 readers
- Shepherd Road — 3 readers
- Bailey Road — 2 readers
- Ewell Road — 1 reader
- West Pipkin Road — 1 reader
Willow Oak in the Polk County picture
Polk County has 306 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #721 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 760,961 residents and 4,544 road miles. By road density that is 0.07 cameras per road mile, in the top 8.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 10 traffic.
What’s watching Willow Oak
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 Willow Oak — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Willow Oak (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Willow Oak
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 Willow Oak
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).