Flock & ALPR Cameras in Great Bend, Kansas
Volunteers have reported 18 automated license plate readers in and around Great Bend — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Great Bend in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 12:30 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Great Bend
The readers mapped around Great Bend break down as 18 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- 10th Street — 4 readers
- Washington Street — 4 readers
- US 56;KS 156 — 2 readers
- North Main Street — 2 readers
- McKinley Street — 2 readers
- Frey Street — 1 reader
- Great Bend Hike and Bike Trail — 1 reader
- North McKinley Street — 1 reader
- Main Street — 1 reader
Great Bend KS PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Great Bend KS PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 16 other agencies.
Great Bend in the Barton County picture
Barton County has 11 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #648 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 25,275 residents and 1,236 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 46.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 18 traffic.
Camera activity around Great Bend, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Great Bend. Latest change logged Aug 20, 2026.
What’s watching Great Bend
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 Great Bend — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Great Bend (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Great Bend
- Great Bend Chief of Police clarifies how Flock camera technology is used
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Great Bend, KS
- Great Bend’s license plate recognition successful even when damaged
- Great Bend Police to add more license plate cameras
What you can do in Great Bend
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 Great Bend
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).