Flock & ALPR Cameras in Kansas City, Kansas
Volunteers have reported 70 automated license plate readers in and around Kansas City — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Kansas City in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Kansas City
The readers mapped around Kansas City break down as 47 Genetec, 24 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Central Avenue — 13 readers
- Parallel Parkway — 8 readers
- South 10th Street — 6 readers
- Washington Boulevard — 4 readers
- Leavenworth Road — 3 readers
- North 27th Street — 3 readers
- North 18th Street — 3 readers
- Ann Avenue — 3 readers
- State Avenue — 3 readers
- Freeman Avenue — 3 readers
- Quindaro Boulevard — 2 readers
- North 10th Street — 2 readers
+ 16 more streets and roads mapped around Kansas City — all on the live map above.
Kansas City KS PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Kansas City KS PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 48 other agencies.
Kansas City in the Wyandotte County picture
Wyandotte County has 156 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #124 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 5.8% nationally. That’s across 167,277 residents and 1,174 road miles. By road density that is 0.13 cameras per road mile, in the top 3.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 71 traffic.
Camera activity around Kansas City, last 30 days
9 newly reported in our hourly change log for Kansas City. Latest change logged Sep 3, 2026.
What’s watching Kansas 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 Kansas City — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Kansas City (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Kansas City
- Kansas City Crime Scene: Gunfire, COMBAT & Mass Surveillance
- Who is looking at Kansas City Flock camera data? | KCUR - Kansas City news and NPR
- Who is looking at Kansas City Flock camera data?
- Flock data from Kansas City, Kansas, got searched 1 million times in 6 months. Who’s looking?
What you can do in Kansas 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 Kansas City
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).