Flock & ALPR Cameras in St. Louis, Missouri
Volunteers have reported 75 automated license plate readers in and around St. Louis — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 87 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of St. Louis, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside St. Louis itself.
The rest sit in Saint Louis (87).
80 of them name an operator in the record: St. Louis City PD (80). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near St. Louis in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 02:14 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in St. Louis
The readers mapped around St. Louis break down as 81 Genetec, 6 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: St. Louis City PD. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Chouteau Avenue — 9 readers
- South Jefferson Avenue — 8 readers
- North Jefferson Avenue — 8 readers
- Gravois Avenue — 6 readers
- Spruce Street — 5 readers
- South Grand Boulevard — 4 readers
- Manchester Avenue — 4 readers
- North Grand Boulevard — 4 readers
- Lindell Boulevard — 4 readers
- Washington Avenue — 4 readers
- Parnell Street — 4 readers
- South Tucker Boulevard — 3 readers
+ 12 more streets and roads mapped around St. Louis — all on the live map above.
St. Louis in the St. Louis city picture
St. Louis city has 143 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #543 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 293,109 residents and 777 road miles. By road density that is 0.18 cameras per road mile, in the top 1.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 87 traffic. Operators named on the record: St. Louis City PD (78).
Camera activity around St. Louis, last 30 days
22 newly reported in our hourly change log for St. Louis. Latest change logged Sep 3, 2026.
What’s watching St. Louis
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 St. Louis — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to St. Louis (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around St. Louis
- Former St. Louis County Police Chief Tim Fitch Discusses St. Louis County Budget Battles and Flock LPR Cameras
- St. Louis County executive orders review of Flock cameras
- St. Louis County abused Amazon facial recognition, suit says. Wrong man went to jail.
- St. Louis County abused Amazon facial recognition tech, suit says. Wrong man went to jail.
What you can do in St. Louis
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 St. Louis
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).