Flock & ALPR cameras in Idaho

Idaho's network is widely spread: Meridian Police Department runs 56 of the state's mapped cameras (11%), and the remaining 89% are split across 42 other agencies and businesses. Unlike metro-area counts, this figure is counted inside the state line, so nothing from neighbouring states leaks in. 205 of the 492 cameras carry no operator at all, so the operator shares above are shares of the attributed cameras.

Metro rows come from a box around each city centre; they overlap where cities adjoin and can include cameras just over a state line. Use them to compare cities, and use the in-state total above for the state.

The top of the Idaho table is Meridian Police Department at 56. What matters for anyone reading the map is how long the tail is — 43 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, 2 are privately operated.

Names are drawn from OpenStreetMap tags, falling back to the jurisdiction the camera sits in (264 of 492 here). A camera's operator is not always the body that paid for it.

'Flock camera' is shorthand here, not the whole story: 78% of vendor-tagged cameras in Idaho are Flock Safety, and Axon Enterprise accounts for 48. 14 cameras are unattributed to any vendor.

The map knows which way 79% of Idaho's cameras face (387 of 492). Mounts, where recorded: street lamp (46), pole (34), post (1).

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