Flock & ALPR Cameras in Scott City, Missouri
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Scott City — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 5 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Scott City, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 4 of them sit inside Scott City itself.
The rest sit in Cape Girardeau (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Scott City in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 22:17 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Scott City
The readers mapped around Scott City break down as 4 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Main Street — 3 readers
- I 55;US 61 — 1 reader
- East Outer Road — 1 reader
Scott City MO PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Scott City MO PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 78 other agencies.
Scott City in the Scott County picture
Scott County has 12 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #975 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 37,967 residents and 1,032 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 40% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 4 traffic.
Camera activity around Scott City, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Scott City. Latest change logged Aug 28, 2026.
What’s watching Scott City
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 Scott City — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Scott City (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Scott City
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 Scott City
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).