Flock & ALPR Cameras in Owensboro, Kentucky
Volunteers have reported 26 automated license plate readers in and around Owensboro — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 17 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 14 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Owensboro
The readers mapped around Owensboro break down as 25 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Owensboro Police Dept., Planned-Owensboro Police Dept.. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Adkisson Greenbelt Park — 3 readers
- Frederica Street — 2 readers
- Fulton Drive — 2 readers
- West 9th Street — 2 readers
- Carter Road — 2 readers
- Leslie Lane — 2 readers
- West Parrish Avenue — 1 reader
- East 4th Street — 1 reader
- East 18th Street — 1 reader
- Southtown Boulevard — 1 reader
- East Parrish Avenue — 1 reader
- Benttree Drive — 1 reader
+ 6 more streets and roads mapped around Owensboro — all on the live map above.
Owensboro KY PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Owensboro KY PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 94 other agencies.
Owensboro in the Daviess County picture
Daviess County has 20 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,401 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 103,195 residents and 1,250 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 33.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 9 traffic. Operators named on the record: Owensboro Police Dept. (14), Planned-Owensboro Police Dept. (3).
What’s watching Owensboro
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 Owensboro — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Owensboro (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Owensboro
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 Owensboro
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).