Atlas · State

Louisiana

What is documented about automated license plate surveillance in Louisiana — and what is still an open question.

Are automated license plate readers used in Louisiana?

Yes. Volunteers have recorded 1,896 automated license plate reader camera locations in Louisiana, across 54 counties. That is a floor, not an inventory — it counts what someone has mapped, not what exists.

Camera data retrieved Aug 15, 2026 · No dated records held

1,896 Camera coordinates 1.6% of the 118,623 we hold nationally. Community-reported, not field-verified by us.
54 Counties with a mapped camera Assigned geometrically from Census county boundaries. A county with no entry has no mapped camera, which is not the same as none.
0 Documented decisions No government decision on record here yet.
0 Full dossiers Places researched down to retention, sharing, warrant standard, and audit policy — including the fields that come back unknown.

Known ALPR locations

Coverage incomplete

  • Camera coordinate
  • Jurisdiction record — no camera coordinates held
  • Program ended, declined, or prohibited

1,896 mapped camera coordinates · 42 jurisdiction records · 50 of 50 states have data. Camera coordinates © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Boundaries and roads: US Census, public domain. Roads are drawn for orientation only — a camera near a road is not a claim about which road it watches.

Pinned to Louisiana. Open the national Atlas to compare with neighbouring states.

Who supplies the cameras

Vendor attribution as recorded by OpenStreetMap contributors. Where a contributor did not identify the vendor the record reads “Unspecified” — that is an unrecorded fact, not a vendorless camera.

Vendor Mapped cameras Share
Flock Safety 1,502 79.2%
Neology 142 7.5%
Unspecified 118 6.2%
Motorola Solutions 88 4.6%
Genetec 19 1.0%
Axon 9 0.5%
Leonardo/Elsag 9 0.5%
Rekor 5 0.3%
Axis Communications 4 0.2%

Where in Louisiana

1,896 mapped cameras assigned to the county containing them. The 42 remaining counties with at least one mapped camera are in the open data.

  • East Baton Rouge 290
  • Jefferson 257
  • Lafayette 141
  • St. Tammany 120
  • Orleans 116
  • Bossier 105
  • Calcasieu 88
  • Caddo 80
  • Lafourche 70
  • Tangipahoa 62
  • Lincoln 48
  • Terrebonne 41

Signal

No Signal story yet names Louisiana. That is a gap in our coverage rather than a quiet state — send us what you are seeing.

National developments that apply here

These are not about Louisiana specifically. They govern the cameras in it.

What we don’t know about Louisiana

We hold no researched record for Louisiana deep enough to have produced open questions yet. That is the largest gap on this page.

We don’t know yet. Help us find out.

Unsurveilled holds no documented ALPR decision for any Louisiana jurisdiction. That is a statement about our research capacity, not about Louisiana.

Places in Louisiana

The largest 40 of 62 places we can put on the map. Selecting one centres the map there. A place appearing here says nothing about whether it has cameras — it is a label, and the camera layer is separate and incomplete.