Flock & ALPR cameras in Jacksonville, FL

Look past the city force: Jacksonville Sheriff's Office (161) runs more mapped readers around Jacksonville than Jacksonville Beach Police Department (14). Regional networks often outgrow the city that gives the metro its name.

Private businesses appear on Jacksonville's map: Lowe's (10), Simon Property Group (1) sit inside the twenty largest operators, and of the cameras with a recorded operator type, 1 is privately run rather than public. Those cameras are not run by any police agency, though their reads can be shared.

Bearing coverage — the share of cameras whose facing is recorded — is 93% around Jacksonville, 92nd of 251. Cameras without a bearing still show on the map, but the app cannot route around them with any precision.

The paper trail is thin. The EFF Atlas of Surveillance documents 2 agencies using plate readers across this area, while the map records 17 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.

Sheriff's offices are prominent: Jacksonville Sheriff's Office and Clay County Sheriff's Office sit in the top twelve, alongside municipal forces such as Jacksonville Beach Police Department, Neptune Beach Police Department, Atlantic Beach Police Department.

Read from the live map on 3 September 2026. 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 Jacksonville.

Jacksonville ranks 80th of the 251 metro areas BanditKin tracks by mapped cameras, between Oklahoma City, OK and Virginia Beach, VA, and 149th by operator count.

Upper third on size; 92nd of 251 on bearing coverage at 93%, and 113th on lead-operator share at 26%.

Ranked against the 251 metro areas BanditKin tracks, every one read from the live map on 3 September 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.

These are all 17 operators. Where OpenStreetMap names an operator we use that name; otherwise the camera is attributed to whichever jurisdiction it stands in (361 cameras here), which is a sound inference rather than a confirmed fact. 120 cameras record no operator of any kind.

Manufacturer is a free-text field, so spellings and legal names have been consolidated here. 18 of 614 mapped cameras name no manufacturer at all, which makes the actual distribution broader than shown. These count cameras on the map, not purchase orders.

Most readers sit on a dedicated pole a few metres up, angled at one lane of traffic, with a solar panel above. Where the mount is recorded around Jacksonville:

One camera covers one approach, so its heading is what decides which journeys end up recorded. Around Jacksonville the mapped bearings distribute like this:

Bearings come from public map data and describe an approximate capture zone, never an exact field of view. 43 mapped cameras have no recorded bearing, and 1 is tagged as omnidirectional.

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

This page is part of the Florida 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 Jacksonville? Search the full map by any city.

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