Flock & ALPR Cameras in Wellston, Missouri
Volunteers have reported 18 automated license plate readers in and around Wellston — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 19 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Wellston, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Wellston itself.
The rest sit in Saint Louis (12), University City (5), Pagedale (1).
11 of them name an operator in the record: St. Louis City PD (11). 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 Wellston in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:13 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Wellston
The readers mapped around Wellston break down as 11 Genetec, 8 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: St. Louis City PD. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Delmar Boulevard — 4 readers
- North Kingshighway Boulevard — 4 readers
- Page Boulevard — 3 readers
- Sutter Avenue — 2 readers
- Ferguson Avenue — 2 readers
- Union Boulevard — 1 reader
- Roberts Avenue — 1 reader
- Julian Avenue — 1 reader
- Kingsland Avenue — 1 reader
City of Wellston MO and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, City of Wellston MO appears in the sharing network with connections to 3 other agencies.
Wellston 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 17 traffic, 1 street. Operators named on the record: St. Louis City PD (11).
What’s watching Wellston
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 Wellston — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Wellston (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Wellston
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 Wellston
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).