Flock & ALPR Cameras in West Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Volunteers have reported 28 automated license plate readers in and around West Hattiesburg — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 28 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of West Hattiesburg, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside West Hattiesburg itself.
The rest sit in Hattiesburg (26).
2 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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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 West Hattiesburg
The readers mapped around West Hattiesburg break down as 28 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Hardy Street — 9 readers
- US 98 — 5 readers
- Weathersby Road — 2 readers
- Oak Grove Road — 2 readers
- Old Highway 11 — 2 readers
- South 41st Avenue — 1 reader
- O'Ferral Street — 1 reader
- South 28th Avenue — 1 reader
- North 40th Avenue — 1 reader
- Lincoln Road — 1 reader
- MS 589 — 1 reader
- Lake Forgetful — 1 reader
+ 1 more streets and roads mapped around West Hattiesburg — all on the live map above.
West Hattiesburg in the Lamar County picture
Lamar County has 5 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,863 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 65,081 residents and 860 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 56.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 23 traffic, 5 parking.
Camera activity around West Hattiesburg, last 30 days
8 newly reported, 2 removed in our hourly change log for West Hattiesburg. Latest change logged Sep 11, 2026.
What’s watching West 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 West Hattiesburg — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to West Hattiesburg (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around West Hattiesburg
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near West Hattiesburg, MS
- 4 new license plate readers reported around West Hattiesburg, MS
- 3 new license plate readers reported around West Hattiesburg, MS
What you can do in West 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.
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Cameras near West Hattiesburg
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).