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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Merriam Woods, Missouri

Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around Merriam Woods — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 8 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Merriam Woods, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Merriam Woods itself.

The rest sit in Bull Creek (2), Rockaway Beach (1), Saddlebrooke (1).

3 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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Reported cameras nearby
#102
of 277 Missouri cities tracked
0.2%
of Missouri’s reported cameras
Live camera map 8 reported cameras around Merriam Woods, Missouri
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Camera Watch Recently reported near Merriam Woods

No new reports near Merriam Woods in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Merriam Woods

The readers mapped around Merriam Woods break down as 8 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.

  • MO 176 — 2 readers
  • MO F — 2 readers
  • Olympus Drive — 2 readers
  • Saddlebrooke — 1 reader
  • US 160;MO 248 — 1 reader

Merriam Woods in the Taney County picture

Taney County has 34 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #372 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 17.4% nationally. That’s across 56,382 residents and 1,461 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 26.2% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 8 traffic.

What’s watching Merriam Woods

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 Merriam Woods — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Merriam Woods (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

What you can do in Merriam Woods

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.

Cameras near Merriam Woods

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).