Flock & ALPR Cameras in Cape Girardeau, Missouri
Volunteers have reported 44 automated license plate readers in and around Cape Girardeau — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 27 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Cape Girardeau
The readers mapped around Cape Girardeau break down as 43 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's, Cape Girardeau Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- William Street — 9 readers
- Shawnee Parkway — 4 readers
- Siemers Drive — 3 readers
- South West End Boulevard — 3 readers
- Lowes Drive — 2 readers
- South Kingshighway — 2 readers
- Themis Street — 2 readers
- Independence Street — 2 readers
- South Fountain Street — 1 reader
- North Pindwood Lane — 1 reader
- Chestnut Street — 1 reader
- College Street — 1 reader
+ 12 more streets and roads mapped around Cape Girardeau — all on the live map above.
Cape Girardeau MO PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Cape Girardeau MO PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 133 other agencies.
Cape Girardeau in the Cape Girardeau County picture
Cape Girardeau County has 48 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #392 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 18.3% nationally. That’s across 82,180 residents and 1,497 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 19.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 19 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (2), Cape Girardeau Police Department (1).
Camera activity around Cape Girardeau, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Cape Girardeau. Latest change logged Sep 6, 2026.
What’s watching Cape Girardeau
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 Cape Girardeau — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Cape Girardeau (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Cape Girardeau
- Flock cameras helped find robbery suspect, Cape Girardeau police say
- Cape Girardeau police defend use of Flock cameras
- Cape Girardeau community weighs in as debate over Flock Safety cameras continues
- Cape Girardeau Police Dept. pushing for real-time crime center
What you can do in Cape Girardeau
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 Cape Girardeau
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).