Flock & ALPR Cameras in Covington, Georgia
Volunteers have reported 38 automated license plate readers in and around Covington — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 38 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Covington, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 21 of them sit inside Covington itself.
The rest sit in Mansfield (2).
15 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 3 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 25 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Covington
The readers mapped around Covington break down as 36 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Newton Drive Northeast — 5 readers
- John R. Williams Highway — 4 readers
- US 278;GA 12;GA 142 — 2 readers
- State Route 142 — 2 readers
- Dr. Martin Luther King — 2 readers
- Covington Bypass Road — 2 readers
- Eagles Parkway — 2 readers
- North Main Street — 2 readers
- Hospital Drive Northeast — 2 readers
- Dearing Street — 1 reader
- Highway 36 — 1 reader
- Johnson Drive Northeast — 1 reader
+ 10 more streets and roads mapped around Covington — all on the live map above.
Covington GA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Covington GA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 118 other agencies.
Covington in the Newton County picture
Newton County has 83 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #248 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 11.6% nationally. That’s across 115,530 residents and 826 road miles. By road density that is 0.10 cameras per road mile, in the top 4.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 36 traffic.
Camera activity around Covington, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Covington. Latest change logged Aug 29, 2026.
What’s watching Covington
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 Covington — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Covington (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Covington
- On the agenda: Covington 08/03/2026 Meeting — Flock Camera (Aug 3)
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Covington, GA
- 7 new license plate readers reported around Covington, GA
What you can do in Covington
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 Covington
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).