Flock & ALPR Cameras in Emerson, Georgia
Volunteers have reported 14 automated license plate readers in and around Emerson — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 14 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Emerson, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 8 of them sit inside Emerson itself.
The rest sit in Cartersville (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
5 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 Emerson in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 19:22 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Emerson
The readers mapped around Emerson break down as 14 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Old Allatoona Road Southeast — 4 readers
- Joe Frank Harris Parkway Southeast — 2 readers
- Cartersville Highway — 1 reader
- Glade Road Southeast — 1 reader
- Knox Bridge Highway — 1 reader
- Red Top Mountain Road Southeast — 1 reader
- Joe Frank Harris Parkway — 1 reader
- Harmony Grove Church Road — 1 reader
- Old Alabama Road Southeast — 1 reader
- Old Alabama Road — 1 reader
Emerson GA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Emerson GA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 49 other agencies.
Emerson 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 14 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (1).
Camera activity around Emerson, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Emerson. Latest change logged Sep 1, 2026.
What’s watching Emerson
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 Emerson — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Emerson (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Emerson
What you can do in Emerson
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 Emerson
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).