Georgia · Local Surveillance Report

Flock & ALPR Cameras in North Decatur, Georgia

Volunteers have reported 25 automated license plate readers in and around North Decatur — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 25 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of North Decatur, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 5 of them sit inside North Decatur itself.

The rest sit in Scottdale (10), Decatur (6), Atlanta (4).

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

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Reported cameras nearby

#117

of 346 Georgia cities tracked

0.2%

of Georgia’s reported cameras

Live camera map 25 reported cameras around North 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 North Decatur

+1 this week +1 last 30 days −2 removed

Oct 3 Flock Safety camera newly reported

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

Where the cameras are in North Decatur

The readers mapped around North Decatur break down as 26 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.

North Decatur Road — 9 readers
Scott Boulevard — 4 readers
Clairemont Avenue — 2 readers
Church Street — 2 readers
Starvine Way — 2 readers
Haygood Drive Northeast — 1 reader
Emory PATH — 1 reader
Eagle Row — 1 reader
Clifton Road Northeast — 1 reader
Ridgewood Drive Northeast — 1 reader
Clairmont Road — 1 reader
Rufus Evans Drive — 1 reader

North 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.

Camera activity around North Decatur, last 30 days

7 newly reported in our hourly change log for North Decatur. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.

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

The latest around North Decatur

What you can do in North 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.

Not sure what one looks like? See photographs of installed cameras before you go looking.

Cameras near North Decatur

Decatur (27) Druid Hills (67) North Druid Hills (54) Scottdale (21)

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