Flock Cameras in Missouri: Map, Locations & Count

Two things stand out in Missouri. First, the operator list is long — 293 separate bodies — so the lead agency, Kansas City Police Department, holds only 12% of the total. Second, the count here is a true in-state figure: every camera was tested against the state polygon, not just a box drawn around a city. 677 of the 3,349 cameras carry no operator at all, so the operator shares above are shares of the attributed cameras. Since 5 October 2026 the in-state count moved from 3,441 to 3,349 (-92).

Kansas City, St. Louis have full pages with operator, vendor and direction breakdowns; the other metros are covered by the live map. Bounding-box counts around each city centre — good for ranking metros, wrong for summing. The only clean state total is the polygon-counted figure in the headline.

The top of the Missouri table is Kansas City Police Department at 403. What matters for anyone reading the map is how long the tail is — 293 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, 21 are privately operated.

Operator attribution comes from OpenStreetMap tagging where recorded and otherwise from the jurisdiction a camera sits in — a strong signal, not a confirmed record. 2,075 of the 3,349 cameras here carry an inferred operator.

Vendor tags exist for 3,204 of Missouri's cameras, and Flock Safety takes 75% of those — but Genetec runs 658, which is why the map reads 'ALPR', not just 'Flock'.

Mounts recorded for Missouri: pole (673), street lamp (38), post (6), wall (3). Bearing coverage is 90% — 3,029 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.