Flock & ALPR Cameras in Gretna, Louisiana
Volunteers have reported 15 automated license plate readers in and around Gretna — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 15 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Gretna, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 11 of them sit inside Gretna itself.
The rest sit in New Orleans (4).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 6 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 30 Genetec camera newly reported
- Sep 30 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 30 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Gretna
The readers mapped around Gretna break down as 8 Flock Safety, 1 Neology, Inc.. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Westbank Expressway — 6 readers
- General de Gaulle Drive — 1 reader
- Stumpf Boulevard — 1 reader
- Belle Chasse Highway — 1 reader
Gretna LA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Gretna LA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 10 other agencies.
Gretna in the Jefferson Parish picture
Jefferson Parish has 231 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #459 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 21.4% nationally. That’s across 432,484 residents and 1,436 road miles. By road density that is 0.16 cameras per road mile, in the top 2.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 9 traffic.
Camera activity around Gretna, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Gretna. Latest change logged Aug 21, 2026.
What’s watching Gretna
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 Gretna — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Gretna (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Gretna
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Gretna, LA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Gretna, LA
What you can do in Gretna
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 Gretna
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).