Flock & ALPR cameras in Missouri

Two things stand out in Missouri. First, the operator list is long — 298 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. 624 of the 3,499 cameras carry no operator at all, so the operator shares above are shares of the attributed cameras.

Kansas City and 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 412. What matters for anyone reading the map is how long the tail is — 298 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, 20 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. 2,280 of the 3,499 cameras here carry an inferred operator.

Vendor tags exist for 3,332 of Missouri's cameras, and Flock Safety takes 76% of those — but Genetec runs 644, which is why the map reads 'ALPR', not just 'Flock'.

Mounts recorded for Missouri: pole (700), street lamp (39), post (8), wall (3). Bearing coverage is 91% — 3,169 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.