Flock & ALPR Cameras in Columbia, Missouri
Volunteers have reported 131 automated license plate readers in and around Columbia — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 13 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Columbia
The readers mapped around Columbia break down as 125 Flock Safety, 5 Motorola Solutions, 2 Leonardo. Named operators in the reports: City of Columbia, City of Columbia PD, Columbia, Mo Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- US 63 — 8 readers
- South Providence Road — 7 readers
- Business Loop 70 East — 7 readers
- Brown Station Road — 6 readers
- Saint Charles Road — 6 readers
- Range Line Street — 5 readers
- East Stadium Boulevard — 4 readers
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Highway — 4 readers
- Scott Boulevard — 4 readers
- Columbia — 4 readers
- Conley Road — 4 readers
- North Stadium Boulevard — 4 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Columbia — all on the live map above.
Columbia MO PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Columbia MO PD runs 107 cameras of its own, has logged 425 plate-database searches, has captured 886,244 vehicle records. Its network connects to 140 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Adrian MO PD, Arnold MO PD, Ash Grove MO PD, Ashland MO PD, Audrain County MO SO, Aurora MO PD, Barry County SO MO, Belton MO PD.
Columbia in the Boone County picture
Boone County has 130 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #260 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 12.1% nationally. That’s across 185,874 residents and 2,175 road miles. By road density that is 0.06 cameras per road mile, in the top 10.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 111 traffic. Operators named on the record: City of Columbia (29), City of Columbia PD (5), Columbia, Mo Police Department (2).
Camera activity around Columbia, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Columbia. Latest change logged Sep 1, 2026.
What’s watching Columbia
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 Columbia — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Columbia (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Columbia
- Columbia City Council members may reconsider Flock cameras | Mid-Missouri News
- Columbia pedestrian dies after hit-and-run on St. Charles Road | Mid-Missouri News
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Columbia, MO
- Flock camera put in downtown Columbia at Ninth and Walnut | Mid-Missouri News
What you can do in Columbia
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 Columbia
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).