Georgia · Local Surveillance Report

Flock & ALPR Cameras in Canton, Georgia

Volunteers have reported 72 automated license plate readers in and around Canton — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 72 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Canton, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 52 of them sit inside Canton itself.

The rest sit in Waleska (8).

10 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (10). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.

12 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.

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

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Reported cameras nearby

#37

of 346 Georgia cities tracked

0.7%

of Georgia’s reported cameras

Live camera map 72 reported cameras around Canton, Georgia

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 Canton

+1 this week +1 last 30 days

Oct 2 Flock Safety camera newly reported

Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.

Where the cameras are in Canton

The readers mapped around Canton break down as 71 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.

Canton — 16 readers
Riverstone Parkway — 6 readers
Reinhardt College Parkway — 5 readers
Fincher Road — 4 readers
Marietta Highway — 4 readers
Cumming Highway — 3 readers
Northside-Cherokee Boulevard — 3 readers
Sam Nelson Road — 3 readers
Waleska Road — 2 readers
Bluffs Parkway — 2 readers
Ball Ground Highway — 2 readers
Canton Mill Drive — 2 readers

+ 16 more streets and roads mapped around Canton — all on the live map above.

Canton GA PD and the sharing network

Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Canton GA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 29 other agencies.

Canton in the Cherokee County picture

Cherokee County has 164 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #377 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 17.6% nationally. That’s across 274,539 residents and 1,575 road miles. By road density that is 0.10 cameras per road mile, in the top 4.4% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 68 traffic, 1 entrance, 1 street. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (10).

Camera activity around Canton, last 30 days

5 newly reported in our hourly change log for Canton. Latest change logged Aug 28, 2026.

What’s watching Canton

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

The latest around Canton

What you can do in Canton

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 Canton

Holly Springs (45) Woodstock (68) Ball Ground (19) Nelson (15)

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