Tampa's map has 234 ALPR records. That is not a police inventory.

The useful split is 197 Flock-attributed records and 37 others

The snapshot was retrieved at 13:54 UTC on October 3. It contains 234 ALPR records: 197 attributed to Flock Safety and 37 attributed to another vendor or with no vendor attribution. Direction values are present for 233 records; zero records supply a last-verification date. A heading helps interpret a source record, but does not establish a working field of view.

The reference point is near central Tampa. The 10-mile circle covers parts of the surrounding area and is not Tampa's municipal boundary, all of Hillsborough County or all of Tampa Bay. A countywide total, a city-owned fleet total and this circle should not be compared as if they count the same thing.

Two nearby source entries around 27.95386, −82.46224 are both labeled Flock Safety, with different recorded headings. Another nearby pair around 27.95326, −82.45122 is labeled Genetec. Those inspectable examples show why counting every ALPR entry as a Flock camera would mislabel the data. We have not independently inspected the devices.

Tampa coverage page and selected records · Inspect the first Flock-labeled record · Inspect a Genetec-labeled record

A funding request and a school-zone program answer different questions

A City of Tampa funding request dated November 13, 2023, published by the Florida Senate for fiscal year 2024–25, proposed approximately 25 additional LPR cameras and integration with a real-time crime center. It is evidence of a proposal at that time. It does not establish that the equipment was funded, installed, still operating in October 2026 or manufactured by Flock.

Tampa Police also publishes a school-zone speed-camera flyer describing radar-based speed detection. That is a separate program description, not a location-by-location Flock inventory. Neither a school-zone camera label nor a pole's appearance is sufficient to assign an ALPR vendor in our map.

For a current police-owned inventory, the useful next evidence would be an agency equipment list, an installation or removal log, and a contract identifying the product and operator. Our map snapshot cannot substitute for those records. No claim about current statewide camera-removal rules is needed to interpret this count.

Read the dated Tampa LPR funding request · Read Tampa Police's school-zone flyer · Tampa Police transparency resources

How we counted—and what the date means

FlockDetour retrieved public camera records on October 3, 2026, selected the ALPR camera class, excluded records marked removed, and measured a 10-mile (16.1-km) circle from the stated reference point. Overlapping query results were deduplicated by record ID. Larger query boxes were split when the server result limit was reached; these three reported city snapshots had no unresolved result cap.

A record ID identifies a database entry, not necessarily a distinct pole or physical device. Nearby entries can describe different viewing directions, separate devices or duplicates. Flock attribution follows the source vendor label; other and unidentified vendors stay separate. The results do not establish who owns each device, whether it is operating or whether a particular vehicle would be captured.

The retrieval date is when we read the database. It is not an installation date, a field visit or a last-seen date. None of the records in these three snapshots supplied a last-verification date. Source corrections and removals can change a later count without a new installation or physical removal occurring that day.

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Open a record, check its source, then report what changed

Use the linked record samples as research starting points. Check the original source and vendor tag before describing a camera as Flock or police owned. Report an incorrect vendor, missing entry or removed device with supporting evidence. View from lawful public places and do not approach, touch or interfere with equipment.

If you compare routes, keep the origin and destination fixed and show the added distance and estimated time beside the mapped exposure estimate. A lower count is not a promise that a drive avoids every reader. We publish this local report as FlockDetour, the app maker; it is not an independent endorsement of our product.

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