Flock & ALPR Cameras in Boise, Idaho
Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around Boise — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 30 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Boise
The readers mapped around Boise break down as 2 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2026; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- South Elite Drive — 2 readers
- South Federal Way — 1 reader
Boise ID PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Boise ID PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 3 other agencies.
Boise in the Ada County picture
Ada County has 65 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,634 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 508,052 residents and 3,601 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 30.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 3 traffic.
Camera activity around Boise, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Boise. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.
What’s watching Boise
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 Boise — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Boise (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
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What you can do in Boise
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 Boise
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).