Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lafayette, Louisiana
Volunteers have reported 95 automated license plate readers in and around Lafayette — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 16 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Lafayette
The readers mapped around Lafayette break down as 93 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety, LA PD / UL PD. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Northwest Evangeline Thruway — 4 readers
- Louisiana Avenue — 4 readers
- Saint Landry Street — 4 readers
- West Congress Street — 4 readers
- Ambassador Caffery Parkway — 4 readers
- North University Avenue — 3 readers
- Girard Park Circle — 3 readers
- East Lewis Street — 3 readers
- Cajundome Boulevard — 3 readers
- Lafayette — 3 readers
- East Saint Mary Boulevard — 3 readers
- Madeline Avenue — 2 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Lafayette — all on the live map above.
Lafayette LA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Lafayette LA PD has captured 645,124 vehicle records. Its network connects to 18 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Lafayette in the Lafayette Parish picture
Lafayette Parish has 131 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #458 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 21.4% nationally. That’s across 245,075 residents and 1,274 road miles. By road density that is 0.10 cameras per road mile, in the top 4.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 86 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (10), LA PD / UL PD (3).
Camera activity around Lafayette, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Lafayette. Latest change logged Aug 31, 2026.
What’s watching Lafayette
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 Lafayette — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Lafayette (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Lafayette
What you can do in Lafayette
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 Lafayette
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).