Flock & ALPR Cameras in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Kailua-Kona — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 5 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Kailua-Kona, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Kailua-Kona itself.
The rest sit in Kailua (5).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (2). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 25 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Kailua-Kona
The readers mapped around Kailua-Kona break down as 4 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Hale Kapili Street — 2 readers
- Queen Kaʻahumanu Highway — 1 reader
- Kuakini Highway — 1 reader
Kailua-Kona in the Hawaii County picture
Hawaii County has 4 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #2,121 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 203,684 residents and 5,419 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 94.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (2).
Camera activity around Kailua-Kona, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Kailua-Kona. Latest change logged Aug 30, 2026.
What’s watching Kailua-Kona
These aren’t red-light cameras. Automated license plate readers like Flock Safety’s photograph every plate that passes, log the time and place, and store it in a searchable database that’s often shared far beyond Kailua-Kona — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Kailua-Kona (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Kailua-Kona
Ask who approved these cameras, how long plate data is kept, and who it’s shared with. File a public records request, raise it at a council meeting, and see the full playbook on Take Action. Fighting this locally? Join or start a chapter and we’ll amplify you.
Not sure what one looks like? See photographs of installed cameras before you go looking.
Cameras near Kailua-Kona
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).