Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lawton, Oklahoma
Volunteers have reported 35 automated license plate readers in and around Lawton — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 29 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 9 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Lawton
The readers mapped around Lawton break down as 33 Flock Safety, 1 Genetec. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety, Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Northwest Cache Road — 5 readers
- East Gore Boulevard — 4 readers
- Southwest Lee Boulevard — 3 readers
- Northwest Sheridan Road — 3 readers
- Lawton — 2 readers
- Northwest Oak Avenue — 2 readers
- Northwest Quanah Parker Trailway — 1 reader
- Northwest Rogers Lane — 1 reader
- West Gore Boulevard — 1 reader
- Northwest 47th Street — 1 reader
- Northwest Lake Front Drive — 1 reader
- Southwest 52nd Street — 1 reader
+ 9 more streets and roads mapped around Lawton — all on the live map above.
Lawton OK PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Lawton OK PD runs 29 cameras of its own, has captured 199,357 vehicle records. Its network connects to 16 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Lawton in the Comanche County picture
Comanche County has 28 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,258 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 121,699 residents and 2,614 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 41.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 33 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (1), Lowe's (1).
Camera activity around Lawton, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Lawton. Latest change logged Sep 9, 2026.
What’s watching Lawton
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 Lawton — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Lawton (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Lawton
What you can do in Lawton
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 Lawton
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).