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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Colwich, Kansas

Volunteers have reported 6 automated license plate readers in and around Colwich — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 6 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Colwich, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 5 of them sit inside Colwich itself.

The rest sit in Maize (1).

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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Reported cameras nearby
#64
of 150 Kansas cities tracked
0.3%
of Kansas’s reported cameras
Live camera map 6 reported cameras around Colwich, Kansas
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Colwich

No new reports near Colwich in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 12:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Colwich

The readers mapped around Colwich break down as 6 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Mar 2026.

  • North 167th Street West — 2 readers
  • West 53rd Street North — 2 readers
  • East Union Avenue — 2 readers

Colwich KS PD and the sharing network

Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Colwich KS PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 13 other agencies.

Colwich in the Sedgwick County picture

Sedgwick County has 436 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #168 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 7.8% nationally. That’s across 524,810 residents and 2,796 road miles. By road density that is 0.16 cameras per road mile, in the top 2.4% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 6 traffic.

What’s watching Colwich

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 Colwich — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Colwich (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

The latest around Colwich

What you can do in Colwich

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.

Cameras near Colwich

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).