Flock & ALPR Cameras in Ama, Louisiana
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Ama — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 5 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Ama, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Ama itself.
The rest sit in Kenner (3).
2 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Ama in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 14:13 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Ama
The readers mapped around Ama break down as 5 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in May 2025; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- Airline Highway — 2 readers
- West Airline Highway — 2 readers
- West 3rd Street — 1 reader
Ama in the St. Charles Parish picture
St. Charles Parish has 26 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #510 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 23.8% nationally. That’s across 51,863 residents and 771 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 18.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 5 traffic.
What’s watching Ama
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 Ama — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Ama (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Ama
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What you can do in Ama
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 Ama
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).