Flock & ALPR Cameras in Pocatello, Idaho
Volunteers have reported 36 automated license plate readers in and around Pocatello — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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On the agenda: Pocatello meeting — FLOCK CAMERA (Oct 8)
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No new reports near Pocatello in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Pocatello
The readers mapped around Pocatello break down as 35 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Yellowstone Avenue — 6 readers
- South 5th Avenue — 5 readers
- Pocatello Creek Road — 4 readers
- East Center Street — 3 readers
- West Gould Street — 3 readers
- North 1st Avenue — 2 readers
- South Valley Road — 2 readers
- Pocatello Avenue — 1 reader
- East Oak Street — 1 reader
- South Main Street — 1 reader
- Pocatello — 1 reader
- South 4th Avenue — 1 reader
+ 6 more streets and roads mapped around Pocatello — all on the live map above.
Pocatello ID PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Pocatello ID PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 10 other agencies.
Pocatello in the Bannock County picture
Bannock County has 41 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #601 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 88,457 residents and 1,712 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 25.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 8 traffic, 3 destroyed, 2 street.
What’s watching Pocatello
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 Pocatello — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Pocatello (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Pocatello
- On the agenda: Pocatello meeting — FLOCK CAMERA (Oct 8)
- Pocatello to hold town hall on automated Flock cameras
- City of Pocatello inviting public for town hall meeting on Flock cameras
- Pocatello to hold town hall on Flock cameras next month
What you can do in Pocatello
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 Pocatello
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).