Flock & ALPR Cameras in Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Volunteers have reported 15 automated license plate readers in and around Hattiesburg — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 20 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Hattiesburg
The readers mapped around Hattiesburg break down as 14 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jul 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- William Carey Parkway — 4 readers
- US 49 — 2 readers
- Hardy Street — 1 reader
- Service Drive — 1 reader
- Mc Innis Loop — 1 reader
- W S F Tatum Drive — 1 reader
- Southern Pointe Parkway — 1 reader
- Championship Lane — 1 reader
- Broadway Drive — 1 reader
- River Avenue — 1 reader
Hattiesburg in the Forrest County picture
Forrest County has 6 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,861 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 78,027 residents and 1,528 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 66.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 14 traffic.
What’s watching Hattiesburg
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 Hattiesburg — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Hattiesburg (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Hattiesburg
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Hattiesburg, MS
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near West Hattiesburg, MS
- 4 new license plate readers reported around West Hattiesburg, MS
What you can do in Hattiesburg
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 Hattiesburg
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).