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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Decatur, Georgia

Volunteers have reported 27 automated license plate readers in and around Decatur — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

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27
Reported cameras nearby
#111
of 346 Georgia cities tracked
0.3%
of Georgia’s reported cameras
Live camera map 27 reported cameras around Decatur, 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 Decatur

No new reports near Decatur in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 00:32 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Decatur

The readers mapped around Decatur break down as 26 Flock Safety, 1 Zhejiang Uniview Technologies Co., Ltd. Named operators in the reports: Blue Line Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.

  • East Ponce de Leon Avenue — 3 readers
  • South Candler Street — 3 readers
  • West Trinity Place — 3 readers
  • West College Avenue — 2 readers
  • Talley Street — 2 readers
  • South Columbia Drive — 2 readers
  • West Howard Avenue — 1 reader
  • Beaumont Place — 1 reader
  • Candler Grove Court — 1 reader
  • West Pharr Road — 1 reader
  • Fayetteville Road — 1 reader
  • Commerce Drive — 1 reader

+ 6 more streets and roads mapped around Decatur — all on the live map above.

Decatur GA PD and the sharing network

Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Decatur GA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 15 other agencies.

Decatur in the DeKalb County picture

DeKalb County has 619 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #180 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 8.4% nationally. That’s across 762,105 residents and 2,006 road miles. By road density that is 0.31 cameras per road mile, in the top 0.5% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 26 traffic. Operators named on the record: Blue Line Solutions (1).

Camera activity around Decatur, last 30 days

5 newly reported in our hourly change log for Decatur. Latest change logged Sep 5, 2026.

What’s watching Decatur

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

The latest around Decatur

What you can do in Decatur

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 Decatur

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