Flock & ALPR Cameras in Clayton, Missouri
Volunteers have reported 21 automated license plate readers in and around Clayton — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 22 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Clayton, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 17 of them sit inside Clayton itself.
The rest sit in Richmond Heights (5).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Jul 12, 2026 [MO] Clayton — City Flock Safety Camera Program Page
Every record for this area on the Docket → · nothing is ever deleted.
No new reports near Clayton in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 11:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Clayton
The readers mapped around Clayton break down as 18 Flock Safety, 3 Motorola Solutions, 1 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Jul 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- St Louis Galleria Street — 3 readers
- Forsyth Boulevard — 2 readers
- Southmoor Drive — 2 readers
- Francis Place — 1 reader
- East Linden Avenue — 1 reader
- Westwood Drive — 1 reader
- South Big Bend Boulevard — 1 reader
- North Hanley Road — 1 reader
- South Hanley Road — 1 reader
- Carrswold Drive — 1 reader
- South Meramec Avenue — 1 reader
- North Central Avenue — 1 reader
+ 6 more streets and roads mapped around Clayton — all on the live map above.
Clayton MO PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Clayton MO PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 66 other agencies.
Clayton in the St. Louis County picture
St. Louis County has 481 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #558 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 996,618 residents and 4,173 road miles. By road density that is 0.12 cameras per road mile, in the top 3.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 17 traffic, 1 residential.
Camera activity around Clayton, last 30 days
4 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Clayton. Latest change logged Aug 22, 2026.
What’s watching Clayton
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 Clayton — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Clayton (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Clayton
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Clayton, MO
- [MO] Clayton — City Flock Safety Camera Program Page
- [MO] Missouri DPS — "Blue Shield" Grant Applications (Flock / surveillance funding, 2025)
What you can do in Clayton
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 Clayton
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).