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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Forest, Mississippi

Volunteers have reported 7 automated license plate readers in and around Forest — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

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Reported cameras nearby

#52

of 123 Mississippi cities tracked

0.6%

of Mississippi’s reported cameras

Live camera map 7 reported cameras around Forest, 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 Forest

No new reports near Forest in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:25 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Forest

The readers mapped around Forest break down as 7 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in May 2026; the most recent in Jun 2026.

West 3rd Street — 3 readers
MS 35 — 1 reader
Highway 35 South — 1 reader
East 3rd Street — 1 reader
Woodland Drive North — 1 reader

Forest in the Scott County picture

Scott County has 7 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,175 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 27,754 residents and 1,052 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 53.5% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 7 traffic.

What’s watching Forest

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

What you can do in Forest

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 Forest

Hillsboro (1) Morton (1) Walnut Grove (11) Newton (4)

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