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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Central City, Kentucky

Volunteers have reported 12 automated license plate readers in and around Central City — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 12 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Central City, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 4 of them sit inside Central City itself.

The rest sit in Drakesboro (4), South Carrollton (1).

3 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.

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

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12
Reported cameras nearby
#54
of 178 Kentucky cities tracked
0.6%
of Kentucky’s reported cameras
Live camera map 12 reported cameras around Central City, Kentucky
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 Central City

No new reports near Central City in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:27 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Central City

The readers mapped around Central City break down as 10 Flock Safety, 1 Genetec, 1 Rekor. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2026; the most recent in Sep 2026.

  • Jones Avenue — 3 readers
  • Gaslight Drive — 2 readers
  • Harper Circle — 2 readers
  • KY 81 — 1 reader
  • Everly Brothers Boulevard — 1 reader
  • Phillip Stone Way — 1 reader
  • Big Springs Road — 1 reader
  • Mose Rager Boulevard — 1 reader

Central City KY PD and the sharing network

Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Central City KY PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 65 other agencies.

Central City in the Muhlenberg County picture

Muhlenberg County has 3 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,780 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 30,712 residents and 945 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 71.1% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 12 traffic.

Camera activity around Central City, last 30 days

11 newly reported in our hourly change log for Central City. Latest change logged Sep 4, 2026.

What’s watching Central City

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

The latest around Central City

What you can do in Central City

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 Central City

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