As of 13 October 2026, 476 Flock and ALPR cameras are mapped within 10 miles of downtown Oklahoma City (342 tagged Flock Safety), and 680 across the wider Oklahoma City metro, a box roughly 50 miles across, run by 32 operators. See each one on the live map below, which way it faces and its approximate capture zone. Free, no account. BanditKin is the private app that routes around them.
BanditKin › Flock camera map › Oklahoma › Oklahoma City, OK
Where Oklahoma City sits against the 251 metros BanditKin tracks, and what is unusual about who runs its readers.
Oklahoma City Police Department is the dominant operator, with 255 of the 680 mapped cameras — 38% of the metro, ahead of Midwest City Police Department on 49. That lead share ranks 57th of the 251 metros BanditKin tracks, so Oklahoma City is a concentrated network.
Retail plate readers are part of the picture around Oklahoma City: The Home Depot (18), Lowe's (6). Of the cameras with a recorded operator type, 19 are private.
Bearing coverage — the share of cameras whose facing is recorded — is 88% around Oklahoma City, 161st of 251. Cameras without a bearing still show on the map, but the app cannot route around them with any precision.
The paper trail is thin. The EFF Atlas of Surveillance documents 7 agencies using plate readers across this area, while the map records 32 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: Cleveland County Sheriff's Office sits in the top twelve, alongside municipal forces such as Midwest City Police Department, Moore Police Department, Edmond Police Department.
Four numbers that describe the Oklahoma City network, taken from the map above on the same day.
476
Flock & ALPR cameras within 10 miles of downtown Oklahoma City
680
Across the wider Oklahoma City metro (50-mile box)
32
Separate operating agencies on the map
599
Cameras with a recorded facing direction
Read from the live map on 13 October 2026. Since 5 October 2026 the 10-mile count moved from 456 to 476 (+20) and the metro-box count moved from 658 to 680 (+22). 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 Oklahoma City.
Upper third on size among the 251 metro areas tracked, all counted the same way on the same day.
Oklahoma City ranks 75th of the 251 metro areas BanditKin tracks by mapped cameras, between Dayton, OH and Trenton, NJ, and 82nd by operator count.
On composition it ranks 57th on how much of the metro its largest operator holds (38%) and 161st on the share of cameras with a recorded bearing (88%) — a concentrated network.
Mapped ALPR cameras
680 — 75th of 251
Separate operators on the map
32 — 82nd of 251
Cameras per operator
21.2 — 74th of 251
Largest operator's share
38% — 57th of 251
Share with a recorded bearing
88% — 161st of 251
Ranked against the 251 metro areas BanditKin tracks, every one read from the live map on 13 October 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.
The mapped cameras around Oklahoma City trace back to 32 separate operators. Oklahoma City Police Department accounts for the largest single share.
Oklahoma City Police Department
255 cameras
Midwest City Police Department
49 cameras
Moore Police Department
27 cameras
Edmond Police Department
25 cameras
The Home Depot
18 cameras
Cleveland County Sheriff's Office
13 cameras
Boeing
11 cameras
The Village Police Department
11 cameras
Del City Police Department
10 cameras
Nichols Hills Police Department
9 cameras
Mustang Police Department
8 cameras
Choctaw Police Department
8 cameras
Lowe's
6 cameras
Yukon Police Department
6 cameras
Bethany Police Department
6 cameras
Piedmont Police Department
5 cameras
Oklahoma County Sheriff's Office
5 cameras
Warr Acres Police Department
4 cameras
Noble Police Department
2 cameras
Jones Police Department
2 cameras
These are the 20 largest of 32 operators. Where OpenStreetMap names an operator we use that name; otherwise the camera is attributed to whichever jurisdiction it stands in (437 cameras here), which is a sound inference rather than a confirmed fact. 187 cameras record no operator of any kind.
'Flock' has become shorthand for any plate reader. Around Oklahoma City it is mostly accurate — 86% of the vendor-tagged cameras — but Axon Enterprise accounts for 33.
Flock Safety
508 cameras
Axon Enterprise
33 cameras
Axis Communications
22 cameras
Motorola Solutions
18 cameras
Rekor
5 cameras
Iteris
1 camera
Neology
1 camera
Manufacturer is a free-text field, so spellings and legal names have been consolidated here. 92 of 680 mapped cameras name no manufacturer at all, which makes the actual distribution broader than shown. These count cameras on the map, not purchase orders.
599 of the 680 mapped cameras around Oklahoma City record which way they point, which is what makes routing around them possible.
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 Oklahoma City:
On a dedicated pole
149 cameras
On a street lamp
8 cameras
On a post
3 cameras
On a trailer
1 camera
One camera covers one approach, so its heading is what decides which journeys end up recorded. Around Oklahoma City the mapped bearings distribute like this:
Facing north
111 cameras
Facing southwest
91 cameras
Facing southeast
85 cameras
Facing south
76 cameras
Facing east
68 cameras
Facing northwest
57 cameras
Facing west
57 cameras
Facing northeast
54 cameras
Bearings come from public map data and describe an approximate capture zone, never an exact field of view. 80 mapped cameras have no recorded bearing, and 1 is tagged as omnidirectional.
7 agencies around Oklahoma City appear in the EFF Atlas of Surveillance as ALPR users — a records count, against the 32 operators physically on the map.
The District Attorneys Council has installed Rekor Systems automated license plate readers across the state as part of its Uninsured Vehicle Enforcement Program. Vendor: Rekor Systems.
As of April 2024, the Edmond Police Department operates 10 Flock Safety automated license plate readers. The agency stores ALPR data for 30 days. Vendor: Flock Safety.
The Harrah Police Department uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers. Vendor: Flock Safety.
The Warr Acres Police Department uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers. Vendor: Flock Safety.
The Midwest City Police Department uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers. Vendor: Flock Safety.
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Atlas of Surveillance. Summaries are the Atlas's own wording, trimmed to a complete sentence.
Every camera on this map reads plates from one direction — the cone shows its approximate capture zone. BanditKin's private navigation uses those cones to route around cameras when you ask it to, with a strength slider you control. When a camera-free route doesn't exist, it says so honestly and falls back to the normal route.
This page is part of the Oklahoma 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 Oklahoma City? Search the full map by any city.
ALPR camera maps for nearby and related cities: Tulsa, OK · Wichita, KS · Fort Worth, TX · Dallas, TX · Little Rock, AR · Kansas City, MO.
Get BanditKin on Google PlayAs of 13 October 2026, 476 Flock and ALPR cameras are mapped within 10 miles of downtown Oklahoma City, 342 of them tagged Flock Safety. Across the wider metro, a box roughly 50 miles across, the map records 680 cameras run by 32 separate operators. That is a documented floor, not a full inventory: cameras appear as people map them, and 92 carry no manufacturer tag at all.
Open the map at the top of this page: every mapped camera around Oklahoma City is plotted with its capture cone where a bearing is recorded. They cluster at junctions, on arterial roads and at the entrances to shopping centres. Missing one? Report it on the map.
32 operators in total, led by Oklahoma City Police Department (255) and Midwest City Police Department (49). Of the cameras with a recorded operator type, 417 are police, 20 are sheriff's offices and 19 are privately run.
Avoidance runs off recorded bearings, and Oklahoma City has 599 of 680 mapped cameras with one. BanditKin's navigation can route around them: it is opt-in, field-of-view-aware, and has a strength slider you control. Where no camera-free route exists it says so plainly and falls back to the normal route. This is a privacy preference — choosing not to be logged by a commercial surveillance network on public roads — and it works from public camera-location data.
Yes, the map is free, and no account is needed. It is built on public data — OpenStreetMap and the EFF Atlas of Surveillance — plus community reports. The BanditKin app adds the private navigation that routes around the cameras.