Flock & ALPR Cameras in Garden City, Kansas
Volunteers have reported 15 automated license plate readers in and around Garden City — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Need this city’s camera data? Custom extracts are free for researchers, journalists and advocates. Ask for it.
- Oct 5 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 27 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
- Sep 27 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
- Sep 27 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
📷 Garden City, KS just got its first reported license plate readers. Someone went out and looked — now it's on the map. #ALPR #Surveillance #GardenCity
Where the cameras are in Garden City
The readers mapped around Garden City break down as 7 Motorola Solutions, 1 Genetec, 1 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2026; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- KS 156 — 1 reader
- US 83 — 1 reader
- North Taylor Avenue — 1 reader
- South Main Street — 1 reader
- West Kansas Avenue — 1 reader
- Buffalo Jones Avenue — 1 reader
- West Mary Street — 1 reader
- East Kansas Plaza — 1 reader
- North 3rd Street — 1 reader
Garden City in the Finney County picture
Finney County has 4 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,741 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 38,001 residents and 1,695 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 77.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 8 traffic.
Camera activity around Garden City, last 30 days
12 newly reported, 3 removed in our hourly change log for Garden City. Latest change logged Sep 6, 2026.
What’s watching Garden City
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 Garden City — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Garden City (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Garden City
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Garden City, KS
- 11 new license plate readers reported around Garden City, KS
- 13 license plate readers reported removed near Garden City, KS
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Garden City, KS
What you can do in Garden City
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 Garden City
← All Kansas cameras, counties & cities
Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).