Flock & ALPR Cameras in University City, Missouri
Volunteers have reported 48 automated license plate readers in and around University City — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 48 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of University City, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 8 of them sit inside University City itself.
The rest sit in Saint Louis (37), Clayton (2).
20 of them name an operator in the record: St. Louis City PD (20). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 22 Genetec camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in University City
The readers mapped around University City break down as 26 Genetec, 12 Flock Safety, 8 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: St. Louis City PD. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Clayton Avenue — 4 readers
- South Kingshighway Boulevard — 3 readers
- North Kingshighway Boulevard — 3 readers
- Forest Park Avenue — 3 readers
- Delmar Boulevard — 3 readers
- South Taylor Avenue — 3 readers
- Kingsland Avenue — 2 readers
- Grand Drive — 2 readers
- Hospital Drive — 2 readers
- North Skinker Boulevard — 2 readers
- Jack Buck Memorial Highway — 2 readers
- Forsyth Boulevard — 1 reader
+ 17 more streets and roads mapped around University City — all on the live map above.
University City MO PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, University City MO PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 76 other agencies.
University City in the St. Louis County picture
St. Louis County has 481 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #558 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 996,618 residents and 4,173 road miles. By road density that is 0.12 cameras per road mile, in the top 3.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 39 traffic, 2 street. Operators named on the record: St. Louis City PD (19).
Camera activity around University City, last 30 days
2 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for University City. Latest change logged Aug 30, 2026.
What’s watching University 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 University City — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to University City (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around University City
- 2 new license plate readers reported around University City, MO
- New chapter on the network: DeFlock U City (University City, Missouri)
What you can do in University 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 University City
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).