Flock & ALPR Cameras in Saint Joseph, Missouri
Volunteers have reported 28 automated license plate readers in and around Saint Joseph — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 25 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Saint Joseph
The readers mapped around Saint Joseph break down as 36 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- South 22nd Street — 4 readers
- Mitchell Avenue — 3 readers
- US 36 — 2 readers
- South Belt Highway — 2 readers
- Frederick Avenue — 2 readers
- I 229 — 2 readers
- Lake Avenue — 2 readers
- Southwest Lower Lake Road — 2 readers
- Messanie Street — 2 readers
- South 36th Street Place — 2 readers
- Sycamore Street — 1 reader
- Southwest Parkway — 1 reader
+ 11 more streets and roads mapped around Saint Joseph — all on the live map above.
Saint Joseph in the Buchanan County picture
Buchanan County has 42 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #511 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 23.9% nationally. That’s across 83,855 residents and 2,165 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 29.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 28 traffic, 6 street.
What’s watching Saint Joseph
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 Saint Joseph — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Saint Joseph (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Saint Joseph
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 Saint Joseph
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).