Flock & ALPR Cameras in Hillsboro, Missouri
Volunteers have reported 10 automated license plate readers in and around Hillsboro — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 10 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Hillsboro, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 6 of them sit inside Hillsboro itself.
The rest sit in Central Township (4).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 30 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Hillsboro
The readers mapped around Hillsboro break down as 9 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Old State Highway 21 — 2 readers
- MO 21;MO B — 1 reader
- Column Drive — 1 reader
- Vreeland Road — 1 reader
- Mel Carnahan Drive — 1 reader
- Viking Drive — 1 reader
- MO 21 — 1 reader
- MO BB — 1 reader
Hillsboro MO PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Hillsboro MO PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 7 other agencies.
Hillsboro 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 9 traffic.
Camera activity around Hillsboro, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Hillsboro. Latest change logged Aug 23, 2026.
What’s watching Hillsboro
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 Hillsboro — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Hillsboro (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Hillsboro
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 Hillsboro
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).