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Flock & ALPR Cameras in McDonough, Georgia

Volunteers have reported 77 automated license plate readers in and around McDonough — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 86 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of McDonough, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 28 of them sit inside McDonough itself.

The rest sit in Stockbridge (8).

50 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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Reported cameras nearby
#30
of 346 Georgia cities tracked
0.8%
of Georgia’s reported cameras
Live camera map 77 reported cameras around McDonough, 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 McDonough
+2 this week +5 last 30 days
  • Oct 4 Flock Safety camera newly reported
  • Oct 3 Flock Safety camera newly reported
  • Sep 26 Flock Safety camera newly reported
  • Sep 23 Flock Safety camera newly reported

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

Where the cameras are in McDonough

The readers mapped around McDonough break down as 66 Flock Safety, 11 Motorola Solutions, 3 Leonardo. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.

  • Jonesboro Road — 13 readers
  • I 75 — 10 readers
  • Campground Road — 4 readers
  • I-75 South Metro Express Lanes — 4 readers
  • Airline Road — 3 readers
  • Hampton Road — 3 readers
  • Henry County — 3 readers
  • US 23;GA 42 — 2 readers
  • Macon Street — 2 readers
  • Andalusia Boulevard — 2 readers
  • Phillips Drive — 2 readers
  • Mill Road — 2 readers

+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around McDonough — all on the live map above.

McDonough GA PD and the sharing network

Per Flock’s own transparency portal, McDonough GA PD runs 63 cameras of its own, has logged 168 plate-database searches, has captured 563,952 vehicle records. Its network connects to 1,908 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.

Connected agencies include: 18th Judicial District Drug Task Force - TN PD, Abbeville SC PD, Acworth GA PD, Ada County ID SO, Adairsville GA PD, Adairville KY PD, Adams County IL SO, Adel GA PD.

McDonough in the Henry County picture

Henry County has 149 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #367 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 17.1% nationally. That’s across 245,417 residents and 1,291 road miles. By road density that is 0.12 cameras per road mile, in the top 3.6% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 58 traffic.

Camera activity around McDonough, last 30 days

5 newly reported in our hourly change log for McDonough. Latest change logged Sep 11, 2026.

What’s watching McDonough

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

The latest around McDonough

What you can do in McDonough

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 McDonough

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