Flock & ALPR Cameras in Benton, Louisiana
Volunteers have reported 13 automated license plate readers in and around Benton — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Benton in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Benton
The readers mapped around Benton break down as 8 Flock Safety, 4 of unrecorded make, 1 Leonardo. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Burt Boulevard — 3 readers
- Courthouse Drive — 2 readers
- Palmetto Road — 2 readers
- Swan Lake Road — 1 reader
- Highway 3 — 1 reader
- 5th Street — 1 reader
- Linton Cutoff Road — 1 reader
- Veterans Parkway — 1 reader
- Crouch Road — 1 reader
Benton in the Bossier Parish picture
Bossier Parish has 100 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #203 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 9.5% nationally. That’s across 129,134 residents and 1,626 road miles. By road density that is 0.06 cameras per road mile, in the top 9.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 11 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (1).
Camera activity around Benton, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Benton. Latest change logged Aug 28, 2026.
What’s watching Benton
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 Benton — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Benton (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Benton
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 Benton
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).