Flock & ALPR cameras in Miami, FL

Look past the city force: Pembroke Pines Police Department (95) runs more mapped readers around Miami than Miami Police Department (86). Regional networks often outgrow the city that gives the metro its name.

Retail plate readers are part of the picture around Miami: The Home Depot (18), CVS (14). Of the cameras with a recorded operator type, 41 are private.

Bearing coverage — the share of cameras whose facing is recorded — is 86% around Miami, 185th of 251. Cameras without a bearing still show on the map, but the app cannot route around them with any precision.

Public records cover 13 agencies around Miami in the EFF Atlas of Surveillance against 48 operators on the map — the difference between a records project and a mapping project, not a contradiction.

The network is regional rather than municipal. Beyond Pembroke Pines Police Department, the operator table runs through Hollywood Police Department, Miami Police Department, Davie Police Department, Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office and Miramar Police Department — none of which individually dominates the metro.

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 Miami.

Miami ranks 37th of the 251 metro areas BanditKin tracks by mapped cameras, between Covington, KY and Phoenix, AZ, and 53rd by operator count.

Upper third on size; 185th of 251 on bearing coverage at 86%, and 235th on lead-operator share at 8%.

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 the 20 largest of 48 operators. Where OpenStreetMap names an operator we use that name; otherwise the camera is attributed to whichever jurisdiction it stands in (836 cameras here), which is a sound inference rather than a confirmed fact. 298 cameras record no operator of any kind.

Manufacturer is a free-text field, so spellings and legal names have been consolidated here. 46 of 1,189 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 Miami is mounted, the split is:

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

Bearings come from public map data and describe an approximate capture zone, never an exact field of view. 166 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.

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