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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Cartersville, Georgia

Volunteers have reported 47 automated license plate readers in and around Cartersville — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

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Live camera map 47 reported cameras around Cartersville, 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 Cartersville

+1 this week +1 last 30 days

Oct 1 Flock Safety camera newly reported

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

Where the cameras are in Cartersville

The readers mapped around Cartersville break down as 45 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2022; the most recent in Aug 2026.

Joe Frank Harris Parkway Southeast — 7 readers
Bartow County — 5 readers
Marketplace Boulevard — 4 readers
Cartersville — 3 readers
Dallas Highway Southeast — 3 readers
Joe Frank Harris Parkway Northwest — 2 readers
Canton Highway — 2 readers
East Main Street — 2 readers
Cassville Road — 2 readers
Grassdale Road Northwest — 2 readers
Polo Fields Northeast — 1 reader
Old Alabama Road — 1 reader

+ 12 more streets and roads mapped around Cartersville — all on the live map above.

Cartersville GA PD and the sharing network

Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Cartersville GA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 131 other agencies.

Cartersville in the Bartow County picture

Bartow County has 82 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #227 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 10.6% nationally. That’s across 111,153 residents and 1,594 road miles. By road density that is 0.05 cameras per road mile, in the top 11.9% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 33 traffic.

Camera activity around Cartersville, last 30 days

5 newly reported in our hourly change log for Cartersville. Latest change logged Aug 29, 2026.

What’s watching Cartersville

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

The latest around Cartersville

What you can do in Cartersville

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 Cartersville

Emerson (14) Euharlee (20) Acworth (75) Rydal (8)

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