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Cameras in New Orleans, LA
5 red light camera locations and 138 mapped plate readers in New Orleans.
Plate readers © OpenStreetMap contributors · © OpenMapTiles
New Orleans, by camera type.
New Orleans: 138 plate readers mapped. Nearby: Kenner 84, Baton Rouge 197, Lafayette 127 and Ruston 34.
Speed cameras in New Orleans
None listed in New Orleans. Nearest city program in Louisiana: Opelousas, about 118 mi from the city line (approved, as of May 2023), not yet on this map.
6 more speed or red light cameras are on the map, counted apart from official lists.
Red light cameras in New Orleans
From City of New Orleans, Department of Public Works, all on the map.
- Red light cameras · Running (as of Aug 2026) 5 locations listed by City of New Orleans, Department of Public Works City of New Orleans ↗
The law, in short:
State law and local ordinance; Act 107 of 2025 (SB 99) limits speed cameras to school zones from August 1, 2025, Opelousas carve-out.
License plate readers in New Orleans
138 plate readers are on the map in New Orleans, and 51 of them carry the Flock Safety tag. Most don't say who runs them.
First-mapped dates here run from Feb 26, 2025 to Nov 6, 2026. 77 of the 138 were first mapped in 2026.
The EFF's Atlas of Surveillance lists New Orleans Police Department and Algiers Development District as agencies that use plate readers.
Who can search plate reads in New Orleans
EyesOnFlock lists no transparency portal for the New Orleans Police Department (Oct 14, 2026). It posts no sharing list, so who can search reads from its cameras is not stated. The sharing lists of 39 agencies name it, so it can search their reads.
New Orleans Police Department
- Agencies on its posted sharing list
- Not stated
- Keeps each read for
- Not stated
- Agencies whose reads it can search
- 39
No transparency portal listed, Oct 14, 2026 · See its sharing lists, as of Oct 14, 2026
Get one summary email a month on new plate readers in New Orleans
Portal figures and sharing lists: EyesOnFlock (CC BY-SA 4.0), from Flock Safety transparency portals.
Traffic cameras in New Orleans
No traffic camera feed is listed for New Orleans yet.
Camera tickets in New Orleans
Follow the instructions and the deadline on the notice.
Know when cameras in New Orleans change.
Free email alerts for cameras on your routes that start issuing tickets. One summary email a month.
- In your monthly summary: the day a camera near you starts issuing tickets
- New cameras mapped or reported near you
- What plate readers keep, and who runs them
- Your street, your distance, the camera types you pick
156,883 cameras listed or mapped 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.
- City of New Orleans: red light camera program, running, as of Aug 2026
- OpenStreetMap contributors: plate readers, speed and red light cameras, 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
- City of New Orleans, Department of Public Works: Camera locations: City of New Orleans (DPW), list as of Aug 12, 2026. Read November 7, 2026.
- US Census Bureau: city boundary (cartographic file 2025)
Plate reader points are mapped by OpenStreetMap volunteers (data as of November 7, 2026).
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