Flock & ALPR Cameras in Great Falls, Montana
Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around Great Falls — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Great Falls in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 23:56 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Great Falls
The readers mapped around Great Falls break down as 4 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in May 2026.
- Market Place Drive — 3 readers
- 26th Avenue Southwest — 1 reader
Great Falls in the Cascade County picture
Cascade County has 4 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #2,003 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 84,601 residents and 2,766 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 85.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 4 traffic. Operators named on the record: The Home Depot (1).
What’s watching Great Falls
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 Great Falls — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Great Falls (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Great Falls
- On the agenda: Great Falls meeting — license plate recognition (Sep 17)
- On the agenda: Great Falls meeting — License plate reader (Mar 17)
What you can do in Great Falls
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 Great Falls
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).