Flock & ALPR Cameras in Ellijay, Georgia
Volunteers have reported 18 automated license plate readers in and around Ellijay — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 18 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Ellijay, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 4 of them sit inside Ellijay itself.
The rest sit in East Ellijay (5).
6 of them name an operator in the record: Ellijay Police Department (5), Gilmer County Sheriff's Office (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
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 Ellijay in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 08:56 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Ellijay
The readers mapped around Ellijay break down as 18 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Ellijay Police Department, Gilmer County Sheriff's Office. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Old Highway 5 South — 2 readers
- Industrial Boulevard — 2 readers
- Highland Crossing — 2 readers
- Broad Street — 1 reader
- Highway 382 West — 1 reader
- Old Highway 5 North — 1 reader
- Highway 382 East — 1 reader
- River Street — 1 reader
- Chatsworth Highway — 1 reader
- Yukon Road — 1 reader
- APD Highway — 1 reader
- Highland Parkway — 1 reader
+ 3 more streets and roads mapped around Ellijay — all on the live map above.
Ellijay GA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Ellijay GA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 60 other agencies.
Ellijay in the Gilmer County picture
Gilmer County has 19 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #381 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 17.8% nationally. That’s across 31,976 residents and 1,438 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 37.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 17 traffic. Operators named on the record: Ellijay Police Department (5), Gilmer County Sheriff's Office (1).
What’s watching Ellijay
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 Ellijay — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Ellijay (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Ellijay
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 Ellijay
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).