Flock & ALPR Cameras in Festus, Missouri
Volunteers have reported 21 automated license plate readers in and around Festus — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 21 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Festus, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 19 of them sit inside Festus itself.
The rest sit in Crystal City (2).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (2). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 8 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Festus
The readers mapped around Festus break down as 19 Flock Safety, 2 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- South Gannon Drive — 5 readers
- South Truman Boulevard — 2 readers
- South Mill Street — 2 readers
- American Legion Drive — 1 reader
- Pounds Road — 1 reader
- Collins Drive — 1 reader
- Bradley Street — 1 reader
- Old State Highway A — 1 reader
- Horine Road — 1 reader
- Festus — 1 reader
- South Scenic Drive — 1 reader
- Gamel Cemetery Road — 1 reader
+ 3 more streets and roads mapped around Festus — all on the live map above.
Festus MO PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Festus MO PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 19 other agencies.
Festus in the Jefferson County picture
Jefferson County has 92 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #717 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 228,227 residents and 3,108 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 21.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 20 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (2).
Camera activity around Festus, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Festus. Latest change logged Sep 8, 2026.
What’s watching Festus
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 Festus — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Festus (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Festus
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 Festus
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).