Flock & ALPR cameras in Las Vegas, NV

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department runs 195 mapped cameras here, 33% of the metro — 82nd-highest concentration of the 251 metros tracked. Clark County Sheriff's Office follows with 77.

Private businesses appear on Las Vegas' map: Lowe's (38), The Home Depot (16), Fashion Show Mall (15) sit inside the twenty largest operators, and of the cameras with a recorded operator type, 2 are privately run rather than public. Those cameras are not run by any police agency, though their reads can be shared.

95% of the mapped cameras around Las Vegas (570 of 599) carry a facing direction — 58th of the 251 tracked metros. Bearings are what make camera-aware routing possible, so the higher that share, the more the avoidance layer can do here.

The paper trail is thin. The EFF Atlas of Surveillance documents 5 agencies using plate readers across this area, while the map records 18 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: Clark County Sheriff's Office sits in the top twelve, alongside municipal forces such as Henderson Police Department, North Las Vegas Police Department, Boulder City 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 Las Vegas.

Las Vegas ranks 84th of the 251 metro areas BanditKin tracks by mapped cameras, between Trenton, NJ and Milwaukee, WI, and 144th by operator count.

On composition it ranks 82nd on how much of the metro its largest operator holds (33%) and 58th on the share of cameras with a recorded bearing (95%) — a concentrated network.

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 18 operators. Where OpenStreetMap names an operator we use that name; otherwise the camera is attributed to whichever jurisdiction it stands in (146 cameras here), which is a sound inference rather than a confirmed fact. 137 cameras record no operator of any kind.

Manufacturer is a free-text field, so spellings and legal names have been consolidated here. 6 of 599 mapped cameras name no manufacturer at all, which makes the actual distribution broader than shown. These count cameras on the map, not purchase orders.

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 Las Vegas is mounted, the split is:

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

Bearings come from public map data and describe an approximate capture zone, never an exact field of view. 29 mapped cameras have no recorded bearing.

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 Nevada 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 Las Vegas? Search the full map by any city.

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