Flock & ALPR Cameras in Palmyra, Missouri
Volunteers have reported 10 automated license plate readers in and around Palmyra — 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 Palmyra, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 5 of them sit inside Palmyra itself.
The rest sit in Hannibal (1).
8 of them name an operator in the record: Palmyra Police Department (6), Marion County SO (1), Palmyra PD (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
8 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 Palmyra in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 13:26 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Palmyra
The readers mapped around Palmyra break down as 14 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Palmyra Police Department, Marion County SO, Palmyra PD. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2025; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- MO 168 — 4 readers
- Avenue of the Saints — 2 readers
- East Main Cross Street — 1 reader
- North Main Street — 1 reader
- County Road 266 — 1 reader
- West New Street — 1 reader
- US 24 — 1 reader
- South Main Street — 1 reader
- MO 6 — 1 reader
- East Ross Street — 1 reader
Palmyra MO PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Palmyra MO PD runs 6 cameras of its own, has logged 16 plate-database searches, has captured 27,663 vehicle records. Its network connects to 1,157 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Acworth GA PD, Ada County ID SO, Ada OK PD, Adairville KY PD, Adams County IL SO, Adams County WI SO, Adrian MI PD, Adrian MO PD.
Palmyra in the Marion County picture
Marion County has 23 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #185 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 8.6% nationally. That’s across 28,493 residents and 881 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 23.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic. Operators named on the record: Palmyra Police Department (6), Marion County SO (1), Palmyra PD (1).
What’s watching Palmyra
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 Palmyra — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Palmyra (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Palmyra
What you can do in Palmyra
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.
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Cameras near Palmyra
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).