Flock & ALPR Cameras in Joplin, Missouri
Volunteers have reported 12 automated license plate readers in and around Joplin — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 14 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Joplin, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 9 of them sit inside Joplin itself.
The rest sit in Loma Linda (1).
4 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Joplin in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 07:13 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Joplin
The readers mapped around Joplin break down as 13 Flock Safety, 2 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- George Washington Carver Memorial Highway — 2 readers
- North Main Street — 1 reader
- East 20th Street — 1 reader
- Newton County — 1 reader
- South Saint Louis Avenue — 1 reader
- East 7th Street — 1 reader
- South Main Street — 1 reader
- US 166;US 400 — 1 reader
- South Outer Road — 1 reader
- South Schifferdecker Avenue — 1 reader
- West 7th Street — 1 reader
- West 20th Street — 1 reader
+ 2 more streets and roads mapped around Joplin — all on the live map above.
Joplin MO PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Joplin MO PD runs 12 cameras of its own, has logged 366 plate-database searches, has captured 289,990 vehicle records. Its network connects to 113 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Joplin in the Jasper County picture
Jasper County has 23 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,436 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 123,532 residents and 1,735 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 37.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 10 traffic.
Camera activity around Joplin, last 30 days
1 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Joplin. Latest change logged Aug 21, 2026.
What’s watching Joplin
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 Joplin — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Joplin (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Joplin
- Former Joplin officer pleads not guilty to Flock misuse charges
- Orange paint splashed across Joplin Flock camera amid privacy debate
- Joplin officials explain Flock camera use amid privacy debate
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Joplin, MO
What you can do in Joplin
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 Joplin
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).