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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Bowling Green, Missouri

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

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6
Reported cameras nearby
#123
of 280 Missouri cities tracked
0.2%
of Missouri’s reported cameras
Live camera map 6 reported cameras around Bowling Green, Missouri
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 Bowling Green

No new reports near Bowling Green in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 16:21 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Bowling Green

The readers mapped around Bowling Green break down as 6 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Jun 2026.

  • US 61 Business — 2 readers
  • US 61 Business;MO 161 — 1 reader
  • MO AA — 1 reader
  • North Main Cross Street — 1 reader
  • MO 161 — 1 reader

Bowling Green MO PD and the sharing network

Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Bowling Green MO PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 67 other agencies.

Bowling Green in the Pike County picture

Pike County has 17 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #111 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 5.1% nationally. That’s across 17,623 residents and 2,153 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 49.8% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 6 traffic.

What’s watching Bowling Green

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

What you can do in Bowling Green

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.

Cameras near Bowling Green

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