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Florida has 9,580 mapped plate readers. 7,187 carry the Flock Safety tag. Most don't say who runs them.
Jacksonville has the most (208), then Tallahassee (128) and Orlando (105). The first Flock-tagged one was mapped Nov 11, 2024. A plate reader keeps a record of each car that passes.
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Flock cameras in Florida by city
A city links to its own page once enough readers are mapped there.
Plate readers mapped in Florida each month
Plate readers of any maker added to the map each month, not only Flock-tagged ones. Lighter bars are estimates from the first-mapped dates of current points.
CamsAhead started its daily change log on October 22, 2026. How the map changed.
Flock-tagged readers first mapped each month
Each row counts the Flock-tagged readers first mapped that month, newest first. Months with none are left out. 7,186 of the 7,187 carry the date they were first mapped.
| Month | First mapped that month | Top cities |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 2026 | 143 | 23 in Westview and 5 in Leesburg |
| Sep 2026 | 255 | 10 in Orlando and 7 in Naples |
| Aug 2026 | 826 | 29 in Princeton and 26 in Jacksonville |
| Jul 2026 | 799 | 23 in Jacksonville and 16 in Fort Lauderdale |
| Jun 2026 | 460 | 15 in Jacksonville and 11 in Port St. Lucie |
| May 2026 | 375 | 25 in Port St. Lucie and 13 in Plant City |
| Apr 2026 | 378 | 14 in Boynton Beach and 11 in Stuart |
| Mar 2026 | 434 | 16 in Orlando and 12 in Tampa |
| Feb 2026 | 326 | 23 in Jacksonville and 11 in New Smyrna Beach |
| Jan 2026 | 524 | 34 in Jacksonville and 21 in Tallahassee |
| Dec 2025 | 732 | 49 in Miami and 40 in Miramar |
| Nov 2025 | 669 | 28 in Pembroke Pines and 18 in Brandon |
Who runs the Flock cameras in Florida
Most don't say who runs them. The EFF's Atlas of Surveillance lists 149 agencies in Florida that use plate readers.
- Private operators, not named 244
- Clay County Sheriff's Office 61
- Volusia County Sheriff's Office 61
- St. Johns County Sheriff 44
- Pasco Sheriff’s Office 30
- Saint Johns County Sheriff's Office 23
- Hernando County Sheriff's Office 18
- Town of Bay Harbor Islands 18
- Lantana Police Department 15
- Pinellas County Sheriff's Office 11
Plate reader law in Florida
| Topic | Florida |
|---|---|
| Status | Law |
| Law | Fla. Stat. §§ 316.0777, 316.0778 |
| What it does | Lets the Department of Transportation allow police plate readers on state highway rights-of-way, bars their use for traffic citations, ties retention to a state schedule and makes identifying plate-reader data confidential. |
| How long it is kept | The maximum period in the Department of State's retention schedule (§§ 316.0777(2)(d), 316.0778) |
| Who it can be shared with | Confidential data 'may be disclosed by or to a criminal justice agency in the performance of the criminal justice agency's official duties' (§ 316.0777(4)(a)) |
| Public record? | Confidential and exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution: images and data with personal identifying information (§ 316.0777(3)) |
| Owner access | Yes, unless it is active criminal intelligence or investigative information: data on a plate registered to an individual 'may be disclosed to the individual' (§ 316.0777(4)(b)) |
| Public records law | Florida Public Records Act, Fla. Stat. ch. 119; Art. I, § 24, Fla. Const. |
| Checked |
See Florida plate reader law next to the other states.
Flock cameras in Florida: questions
How many Flock cameras are in Florida?
7,187 plate readers tagged Flock Safety are on the map in Florida, as of November 7, 2026. The real number may be higher or lower: the map shows only the cameras mapped so far.
Which cities in Florida have the most Flock cameras?
By mapped count: Jacksonville (208), Tallahassee (128) and Orlando (105). The city list on this page shows each city with a Flock-tagged reader.
Is each mapped camera still there?
Not always. A point shows where someone mapped a camera. 48 of the 7,187 carry a date when a volunteer last checked them on the ground.
Florida's plate reader data
From OpenStreetMap, under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0. A free copy goes to anyone who asks: how it is made and how to ask.
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10,066 cameras listed or mapped in Florida so far.
Sources and updates
How this page was made: CamsAhead writes each page type once, then fills it with this place's data from the sources below.
- OpenStreetMap contributors: plate readers, data as of Nov 7, 2026; ODbL 1.0
- EFF Atlas of Surveillance: agencies that use plate readers, data as of Aug 2026; CC BY 4.0
- Fla. Stat. §§ 316.0777, 316.0778: plate reader law, checked Oct 25, 2026
- Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Open Government Guide: public records law, checked Oct 25, 2026
Plate reader points are mapped by OpenStreetMap volunteers (data as of November 7, 2026).
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