Flock & ALPR Cameras in Ruston, Louisiana
Volunteers have reported 38 automated license plate readers in and around Ruston — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 41 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Ruston, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 35 of them sit inside Ruston itself.
The rest sit in Choudrant (2), Calhoun (1), Vienna (1).
12 of them name an operator in the record: Louisiana Tech University (12). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
2 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 18 Insight LPR camera newly reported
- Sep 18 Insight LPR camera newly reported
- Sep 18 Insight LPR camera newly reported
- Sep 18 Insight LPR camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
📷 14 new license plate readers just reported around Ruston, LA. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #Ruston
Where the cameras are in Ruston
The readers mapped around Ruston break down as 20 of unrecorded make, 13 Flock Safety, 3 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Western Street — 3 readers
- West Alabama Avenue — 3 readers
- I 20 — 3 readers
- Tech Drive — 2 readers
- Woodward Avenue — 2 readers
- South Homer Street — 2 readers
- Westwood Drive — 2 readers
- Everett Street — 1 reader
- West Texas Avenue — 1 reader
- Bearcat Drive — 1 reader
- Bond Street — 1 reader
- Thornton Street — 1 reader
+ 17 more streets and roads mapped around Ruston — all on the live map above.
Ruston in the Lincoln Parish picture
Lincoln Parish has 23 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #569 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 48,160 residents and 1,189 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 29.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 36 traffic.
Camera activity around Ruston, last 30 days
2 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Ruston. Latest change logged Sep 9, 2026.
What’s watching Ruston
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 Ruston — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Ruston (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Ruston
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Ruston, LA
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Ruston, LA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Ruston, LA
- Louisiana Center For The Blind Student Hit By Train In Ruston
What you can do in Ruston
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.
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Cameras near Ruston
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).