Flock & ALPR cameras in Florida

Florida's network is widely spread: Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office runs 214 of the state's mapped cameras (2%), and the remaining 98% are split across 372 other agencies and businesses. Unlike metro-area counts, this figure is counted inside the state line, so nothing from neighbouring states leaks in. 2,212 of the 9,640 cameras carry no operator at all, so the operator shares above are shares of the attributed cameras.

Miami, Orlando, Tampa and Jacksonville have full pages with operator, vendor and direction breakdowns; the other metros are covered by the live map. These are bounding-box reads around each city, useful for comparing metros but not for adding together — boxes overlap and spill across state lines. The headline figure is counted inside the border and is the honest state total.

The top of the Florida table is Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office at 214. What matters for anyone reading the map is how long the tail is — 373 operators in total, so most cameras belong to agencies that individually run only a handful. Private businesses appear too: of the cameras with a recorded operator type, 171 are privately operated.

Names are drawn from OpenStreetMap tags, falling back to the jurisdiction the camera sits in (6,637 of 9,640 here). A camera's operator is not always the body that paid for it.

Flock Safety is tagged on 7,542 of 9,151 manufacturer-recorded cameras — 82%. The rest is led by Motorola Solutions (1,054) and Axis Communications (194). Another 449 cameras have no vendor recorded.

Mounts recorded for Florida: pole (2,324), street lamp (110), post (46), wall (32). Bearing coverage is 88% — 8,435 cameras have a facing direction on the map, and those are the ones the avoidance layer can actually work with.

Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Atlas of Surveillance. Summaries are the Atlas's own wording, trimmed to a complete sentence.