Flock & ALPR cameras in New Orleans, LA

The largest fleet on the map is not the city's own. Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office runs 157 mapped cameras against New Orleans Police Department's 106 — a pattern we have seen in Denver, where Aurora outranks Denver PD, and in Cincinnati, where the county sheriff outranks the city force.

Not every reader here belongs to a public body. Lowe's (1) appears among the largest operators, and 1 of the cameras carrying an operator type is recorded as private.

92% of the mapped cameras around New Orleans (441 of 477) carry a facing direction — 100th 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 2 agencies using plate readers across this area, while the map records 13 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: Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office and St. Charles County Sheriff's Office sit in the top twelve, alongside municipal forces such as New Orleans Police Department, Kenner Police Department, Westwego 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 New Orleans.

New Orleans ranks 100th of the 251 metro areas BanditKin tracks by mapped cameras, between Broken Arrow, OK and Toledo, OH, and 173rd by operator count.

On composition it ranks 81st on how much of the metro its largest operator holds (33%) and 100th on the share of cameras with a recorded bearing (92%) — 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 13 operators. Where OpenStreetMap names an operator we use that name; otherwise the camera is attributed to whichever jurisdiction it stands in (408 cameras here), which is a sound inference rather than a confirmed fact. 68 cameras record no operator of any kind.

Manufacturer is a free-text field, so spellings and legal names have been consolidated here. 38 of 477 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 New Orleans:

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

Bearings come from public map data and describe an approximate capture zone, never an exact field of view. 36 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 Louisiana 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 New Orleans? Search the full map by any city.

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