Flock & ALPR cameras in Provo, UT

Provo Police Department runs 39 mapped cameras here, 12% of the metro — 214th-highest concentration of the 251 metros tracked. Sandy Police Department follows with 20.

Retail plate readers are part of the picture around Provo: Lowe's (11), The Home Depot (7). Of the cameras with a recorded operator type, 17 are private.

Bearing coverage — the share of cameras whose facing is recorded — is 92% around Provo, 103rd of 251. Cameras without a bearing still show on the map, but the app cannot route around them with any precision.

Public records cover 11 agencies around Provo in the EFF Atlas of Surveillance against 30 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 Provo Police Department, the operator table runs through Sandy Police Department, BYU Police Department, Draper Police Department, Orem Police Department and Lindon Police Department, with the Utah County Sheriff's Office at 7 — 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 Provo.

Provo ranks 124th of the 251 metro areas BanditKin tracks by mapped cameras, between Bakersfield, CA and Macon, GA, and 88th by operator count.

Mid-table on size; 103rd of 251 on bearing coverage at 92%, and 214th on lead-operator share at 12%.

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 30 operators. Where OpenStreetMap names an operator we use that name; otherwise the camera is attributed to whichever jurisdiction it stands in (184 cameras here), which is a sound inference rather than a confirmed fact. 96 cameras record no operator of any kind.

Manufacturer is a free-text field, so spellings and legal names have been consolidated here. 6 of 327 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 Provo:

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

Bearings come from public map data and describe an approximate capture zone, never an exact field of view. 25 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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