Verified ALPR — vendor unconfirmed
Gainesville is watched — we just can't confirm by whom.
Our records document automated license plate reader use in Gainesville, Florida recorded for Gainesville Police Department, Alachua County Sheriff's Office and University of Florida Police Department, but they do not establish Flock Safety as the vendor. Separately, 111 individual ALPR camera locations mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors fall inside the municipal boundary, 31 of them source-tagged Flock Safety.
Agency
Gainesville Police Department
Agency type
Police
Jurisdiction
Municipal
County
Alachua County
State
Florida (FL)
Vendor
Vigilant Solutions
The Gainesville Police Department scanned 67,557 license plates in 2019 using Vigilant Solutions automated license plate readers.
Sources · record AOS004120
Agency
Alachua County Sheriff's Office
Agency type
Sheriff
Jurisdiction
County
County
Alachua County
State
Florida (FL)
Vendor
Vigilant Solutions
The Alachua County Sheriff's Office scanned 394,279 license plates in 2019 using Vigilant Solutions automated license plate readers.
Sources · record AOS004212
Agency
University of Florida Police Department
Agency type
Police
Jurisdiction
University
County
Alachua County
State
Florida (FL)
Vendor
Vigilant Solutions, NDI Recognition Systems
The University of Florida Police Department uses automated license plate readers. Vigilant Solutions ALPRs were installed 16 intersections surrounding the University's campus in 2020. Records show the university police also used NDI systems in 2017.
Sources · record AOS007221
These entries document that an agency has been reported to use ALPR technology. They do not establish camera counts, exact locations, cost, retention periods or sharing policies unless the linked source says so.
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Everything on this page traces back to the records below. Where a record carries no linked document, we say so instead of filling the gap.
Deployment records come from the EFF Atlas of Surveillance ↗. Database last updated 2026-08-07.
111 mapped camera points inside the Gainesville boundary, from OpenStreetMap contributors via the DeFlock ↗ dataset (ODbL). Each point links to its own OpenStreetMap record in the camera list on this page.
Camera points are matched to this municipality by point-in-polygon containment against US Census Bureau cartographic boundaries (2023) — the coordinate falls inside the municipal boundary. Containment is a statement about location only, never about ownership, operation, purchase or deployment.
Other Florida communities with a record in our database — nearest by county first. Absence from this list is not evidence of absence.
Reuters reports that Florida has barred local police from mounting license plate readers on state highways, after the state transportation department revoked right-of-way permits for the cameras. Reuters frames the move as part of a widening national split over police use of Flock Safety and similar vehicle-tracking technology.
ReutersSep 3, 2026News reportingFlock Safety
ABC News reports that the Florida Department of Transportation revoked use permits for Flock cameras inside the right-of-way of state highway system roads, citing an increase in reported misuse of the camera system.
ABC NewsSep 1, 2026News reportingFlock Safety
News4JAX reports that sheriffs across Florida are pulling automated license plate readers from state roads, with hundreds of readers in Northeast Florida due to come down within 30 days of the state's order.
News4JAXSep 1, 2026News reportingFlock Safety
CBS Miami reports that 18 Florida law enforcement agencies received state grant money for 440 license plate readers that the state has now blocked from state roads. Gov. Ron DeSantis has criticized the cameras, warning they could create a "surveillance state."
CBS MiamiSep 1, 2026News reportingFlock Safety
Camera counts, contract prices, retention and sharing policies are shown only where we found a primary source. Where they're missing, the information is not publicly verified — see the Flock Files for the documents we do have.
Data attribution
Portions of the surveillance deployment data on this site come from the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Atlas of Surveillance. atlasofsurveillance.org ↗ Are You Flocked? is independent and is not affiliated with the EFF or Flock Safety. Database last updated 2026-08-07.
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