Flock & ALPR Cameras in Hillsdale, Missouri
Volunteers have reported 29 automated license plate readers in and around Hillsdale — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 28 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Hillsdale, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Hillsdale itself.
The rest sit in Saint Louis (24), Wellston (2), Pine Lawn (1).
23 of them name an operator in the record: St. Louis City PD (23). 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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- Oct 4 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Hillsdale
The readers mapped around Hillsdale break down as 24 Genetec, 3 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: St. Louis City PD. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- North Kingshighway Boulevard — 8 readers
- Natural Bridge Avenue — 5 readers
- Page Boulevard — 4 readers
- Goodfellow Boulevard — 4 readers
- Doctor Martin Luther King Drive — 3 readers
- Kienlen Avenue — 2 readers
- Union Boulevard — 1 reader
Hillsdale MO PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Hillsdale MO PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 14 other agencies.
Hillsdale 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 27 traffic. Operators named on the record: St. Louis City PD (23).
What’s watching Hillsdale
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 Hillsdale — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Hillsdale (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Hillsdale
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 Hillsdale
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).