Flock & ALPR Cameras in Bismarck, Missouri
Volunteers have reported 3 automated license plate readers in and around Bismarck — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 3 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Bismarck, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 2 of them sit inside Bismarck itself.
The rest sit in Caledonia (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Bismarck in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 18:57 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Bismarck
The readers mapped around Bismarck break down as 3 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Feb 2026.
- Center Street — 2 readers
- MO 21 — 1 reader
Bismarck in the St. Francois County picture
St. Francois County has 44 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #305 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 14.2% nationally. That’s across 66,864 residents and 1,202 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 16.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 3 traffic.
What’s watching Bismarck
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 Bismarck — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Bismarck (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Bismarck
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 Bismarck
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).