As of 13 October 2026, 267 Flock and ALPR cameras are mapped within 10 miles of downtown Baton Rouge (228 tagged Flock Safety), and 466 across the wider Baton Rouge metro, a box roughly 50 miles across, run by 20 operators. See each one on the live map below, which way it faces and its approximate capture zone. Free, no account. BanditKin is the private app that routes around them.
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East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office runs the most cameras here; 94% of the 466 readers record a bearing.
East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office is the dominant operator, with 240 of the 466 mapped cameras — 52% of the metro, ahead of Ascension Parish Sheriff's Office on 26. That lead share ranks 21st of the 251 metros BanditKin tracks, so Baton Rouge is a concentrated network.
Retail plate readers are part of the picture around Baton Rouge: Lowe's (1), Copper Mill HOA (1). Of the cameras with a recorded operator type, 1 is private.
For the thing that actually matters when routing, Baton Rouge is well documented: 438 of its 466 mapped cameras — 94% — record which way they face, ranking 76th of 251 on bearing coverage.
The paper trail is thin. The EFF Atlas of Surveillance documents 4 agencies using plate readers across this area, while the map records 20 distinct operators. That is a records gap rather than an absence of cameras, and it is why this page leans on mapped counts rather than agency filings.
The network is regional rather than municipal. Beyond East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office, the operator table runs through Central Police Department, Denham Springs Police Department, Zachary Police Department, St. Gabriel Police Department and Walker Police Department — none of which individually dominates the metro.
Four numbers that describe the Baton Rouge network, taken from the map above on the same day.
267
Flock & ALPR cameras within 10 miles of downtown Baton Rouge
466
Across the wider Baton Rouge metro (50-mile box)
20
Separate operating agencies on the map
438
Cameras with a recorded facing direction
Read from the live map on 13 October 2026. Since 5 October 2026 the 10-mile count held at 267 and the metro-box count moved from 465 to 466 (+1). The underlying records are OpenStreetMap entries plus community submissions — nobody who operates a camera is obliged to declare it, so these are the documented minimum rather than the full picture. The metro is a box roughly 50 miles across centred on Baton Rouge.
Mid-table on size among the 251 metro areas tracked, all counted the same way on the same day.
Baton Rouge ranks 106th of the 251 metro areas BanditKin tracks by mapped cameras, between New Haven, CT and Lowell, MA, and 130th by operator count.
On composition it ranks 21st on how much of the metro its largest operator holds (52%) and 76th on the share of cameras with a recorded bearing (94%) — a concentrated network.
Mapped ALPR cameras
466 — 106th of 251
Separate operators on the map
20 — 130th of 251
Cameras per operator
23.3 — 64th of 251
Largest operator's share
52% — 21st of 251
Share with a recorded bearing
94% — 76th of 251
Ranked against the 251 metro areas BanditKin tracks, every one read from the live map on 13 October 2026. Metro areas are drawn as a box around the city centre, so neighbouring metros can share cameras and these counts must never be added together.
20 operators appear on the map around Baton Rouge; all 20 are listed here.
East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office
240 cameras
Ascension Parish Sheriff's Office
26 cameras
Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office
17 cameras
West Baton Rouge County Sheriff's Office
9 cameras
Central Police Department
9 cameras
Denham Springs Police Department
8 cameras
Zachary Police Department
7 cameras
Iberville Parish Sheriff's Office
6 cameras
St. Gabriel Police Department
4 cameras
Walker Police Department
4 cameras
East Feliciana County Sheriff's Office
4 cameras
Port Vincent Police Department
3 cameras
Port Allen Police Department
3 cameras
Pointe Coupee County Sheriff's Office
3 cameras
Lowe's
1 camera
Brusly Police Department
1 camera
Copper Mill HOA
1 camera
New Roads Police Department
1 camera
Slaughter Police Department
1 camera
West Feliciana County Sheriff's Office
1 camera
These are all 20 operators. Where OpenStreetMap names an operator we use that name; otherwise the camera is attributed to whichever jurisdiction it stands in (343 cameras here), which is a sound inference rather than a confirmed fact. 117 cameras record no operator of any kind.
'Flock' has become shorthand for any plate reader. Around Baton Rouge it is mostly accurate — 86% of the vendor-tagged cameras — but Motorola Solutions accounts for 32.
Flock Safety
390 cameras
Motorola Solutions
32 cameras
Neology
19 cameras
Genetec
13 cameras
Axon Enterprise
1 camera
Manufacturer is a free-text field, so spellings and legal names have been consolidated here. 11 of 466 mapped cameras name no manufacturer at all, which makes the actual distribution broader than shown. These count cameras on the map, not purchase orders.
438 of the 466 mapped cameras around Baton Rouge record which way they point, which is what makes routing around them possible.
They are easy to miss and hard to unsee — a small rectangular box on a narrow pole near a junction, generally with a solar panel and a stubby barrel lens. Where the data records how a camera around Baton Rouge is mounted, the split is:
On a dedicated pole
77 cameras
On a street lamp
5 cameras
One camera covers one approach, so its heading is what decides which journeys end up recorded. Around Baton Rouge the mapped bearings distribute like this:
Facing north
77 cameras
Facing south
71 cameras
Facing east
60 cameras
Facing west
57 cameras
Facing northeast
49 cameras
Facing northwest
46 cameras
Facing southwest
42 cameras
Facing southeast
36 cameras
Bearings come from public map data and describe an approximate capture zone, never an exact field of view. 28 mapped cameras have no recorded bearing.
4 agencies around Baton Rouge appear in the EFF Atlas of Surveillance as ALPR users — a records count, against the 20 operators physically on the map.
The East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office uses automated license plate readers.
The Southern University Police Department uses automated license plate readers.
The Central Police Department has 11 Flock Safety automated license plate readers and other cameras as of July 2025. Vendor: Flock Safety.
The Zachary Police Department operates 13 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025. Vendor: Flock Safety.
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Atlas of Surveillance. Summaries are the Atlas's own wording, trimmed to a complete sentence.
The map shows where the readers are and which way they face. BanditKin's navigation turns that into a routing preference: opt-in, field-of-view-aware, with a slider for how hard to try — and an honest fallback when no clean route exists.
This page is part of the Louisiana camera hub, which counts every camera inside the state line rather than by metro box. New to this? Read what ALPR cameras capture, how long it is kept, and who can search it. Not in Baton Rouge? Search the full map by any city.
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Get BanditKin on Google PlayAs of 13 October 2026, 267 Flock and ALPR cameras are mapped within 10 miles of downtown Baton Rouge, 228 of them tagged Flock Safety. Across the wider metro, a box roughly 50 miles across, the map records 466 cameras run by 20 separate operators. That is a documented floor, not a full inventory: cameras appear as people map them, and 11 carry no manufacturer tag at all.
The live map above shows 466 mapped ALPR cameras around metro Baton Rouge, each with an approximate viewing cone. Positions come from OpenStreetMap and community reports, so coverage may be incomplete — if you know a camera that isn't shown, you can report it directly on the map.
East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office is the largest mapped operator with 240 cameras, ahead of Ascension Parish Sheriff's Office's 26. Beyond them the network spreads across 18 other operators. Private operators are part of it: Lowe's (1), Copper Mill HOA (1). The EFF Atlas of Surveillance documents 4 agencies across this area.
Avoidance runs off recorded bearings, and Baton Rouge has 438 of 466 mapped cameras with one. BanditKin's navigation can route around them: it is opt-in, field-of-view-aware, and has a strength slider you control. Where no camera-free route exists it says so plainly and falls back to the normal route. This is a privacy preference — choosing not to be logged by a commercial surveillance network on public roads — and it works from public camera-location data.
Yes, the map is free, and no account is needed. It is built on public data — OpenStreetMap and the EFF Atlas of Surveillance — plus community reports. The BanditKin app adds the private navigation that routes around the cameras.