Flock & ALPR Cameras in Billings, Montana
Volunteers have reported 52 automated license plate readers in and around Billings — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 21 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 21 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 18 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 18 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
📷 15 new license plate readers just reported around Billings, MT. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #Billings
Where the cameras are in Billings
The readers mapped around Billings break down as 27 Flock Safety, 3 Motorola Solutions, 2 Axis Communications. Named operators in the reports: The Home Depot, Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Billings — 7 readers
- King Avenue West — 5 readers
- Shiloh Crossing Boulevard — 3 readers
- Yellowstone Avenue — 2 readers
- Central Avenue — 2 readers
- Saint John's Avenue — 2 readers
- 10th Avenue North — 2 readers
- Chief Black Otter Trail — 2 readers
- Lewis Avenue — 1 reader
- North 28th Street — 1 reader
- North 27th Street — 1 reader
- 2nd Avenue North — 1 reader
+ 5 more streets and roads mapped around Billings — all on the live map above.
Billings in the Yellowstone County picture
Yellowstone County has 19 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,702 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 167,340 residents and 3,083 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 55.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 30 traffic. Operators named on the record: The Home Depot (4), Lowe's (3).
Camera activity around Billings, last 30 days
6 newly reported in our hourly change log for Billings. Latest change logged Sep 9, 2026.
What’s watching Billings
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 Billings — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Billings (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Billings
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Billings, MT
- 15 new license plate readers reported around Billings, MT
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Billings, MT
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Billings, MT
What you can do in Billings
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 Billings
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).