West Palm Beach, FL Privacy & Surveillance: Security Camera Rules (2026)

In Palm Beach County and throughout Florida, installing security cameras on your own property is legal. Video recording is allowed in public-facing areas such as driveways, front yards, storefronts, and common areas where no reasonable expectation of privacy exists. However, Florida Statute 810.145 (video voyeurism) makes it illegal to intentionally use an imaging device to secretly view, broadcast, or record a person dressing, undressing, or in a private setting without their knowledge and consent. Cameras must not be directed at areas where people have a reasonable expectation of privacy, including through neighbors' windows, into bathrooms, bedrooms, and backyards with adequate fencing. Audio recording capability on security cameras triggers Florida's strict two-party (all-party) consent wiretapping law under Statute 934.03. Recording oral communications without all parties' consent is a third-degree felony. Many Florida homeowners disable audio on their security cameras to avoid criminal liability. Doorbell cameras are popular in Palm Beach County but must comply with the same audio consent requirements.