Flock & ALPR Cameras in Missoula County, Montana
Volunteers have reported 11 automated license plate readers across Missoula County — each one logging every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 12 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
How Missoula County compares nationally
Missoula County ranks #1,868 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. The count covers 119,639 residents and 4,545 miles of county roads — 0.7523 cameras per 10,000 residents.
What’s watching Missoula County
Automated license plate readers like Flock Safety’s photograph every plate that passes, stamp it with time and place, and store it in a searchable database that’s routinely shared across agencies — here’s where that data goes. Counts reflect cameras volunteers have mapped inside Missoula County. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Missoula
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- Use of license plate reader cameras in Missoula raises privacy concerns
What you can do in Missoula
County commissions and sheriff’s offices sign these contracts — and answer to residents. Ask how long plate data is kept and who it’s shared with: file a public records request, speak at a public meeting, and see the playbook on Take Action. Organizing locally? Join or start a chapter.
Not sure what one looks like? See photographs of installed cameras before you go looking.
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. County boundaries: US Census.