Flock & ALPR Cameras in Hutchinson, Kansas
Volunteers have reported 12 automated license plate readers in and around Hutchinson — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 20 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Hutchinson
The readers mapped around Hutchinson break down as 10 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- East 4th Avenue — 2 readers
- East 17th Avenue — 2 readers
- North Plum Street — 2 readers
- East 11th Avenue — 1 reader
- West 4th Avenue — 1 reader
- West 5th Avenue — 1 reader
- Hutchinson — 1 reader
- East Avenue A — 1 reader
Hutchinson KS PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Hutchinson KS PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 116 other agencies.
Hutchinson in the Reno County picture
Reno County has 22 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #866 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 61,693 residents and 2,529 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 47% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 8 traffic.
What’s watching Hutchinson
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 Hutchinson — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Hutchinson (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Hutchinson
What you can do in Hutchinson
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 Hutchinson
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).