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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Columbus, Mississippi

Volunteers have reported 6 automated license plate readers in and around Columbus — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

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Reported cameras nearby

#54

of 123 Mississippi cities tracked

0.5%

of Mississippi’s reported cameras

Live camera map 6 reported cameras around Columbus, Mississippi

Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →

Camera Watch Recently reported near Columbus

No new reports near Columbus in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Columbus

The readers mapped around Columbus break down as 6 Flock Safety, 1 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.

Woodmont Drive — 2 readers
Bluecutt Road — 1 reader
South 10th Avenue — 1 reader
Main Street — 1 reader
Lowndes County — 1 reader
US 45;MS 50 — 1 reader

Columbus in the Lowndes County picture

Lowndes County has 4 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,899 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 58,187 residents and 1,229 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 70.3% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 3 traffic, 1 Pedestrian.

Camera activity around Columbus, last 30 days

2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Columbus. Latest change logged Aug 26, 2026.

What’s watching Columbus

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 Columbus — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Columbus (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

What you can do in Columbus

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 Columbus

New Hope (2) Columbus Air Force Base (1) Caledonia (2) West Point (1)

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).