Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lakin, Kansas
Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around Lakin — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 8 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Lakin, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 4 of them sit inside Lakin itself.
The rest sit in Deerfield (3).
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Lakin in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:27 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Lakin
The readers mapped around Lakin break down as 5 Motorola Solutions, 3 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in May 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- US 50;US 400 — 1 reader
- Main Street — 1 reader
- Kearny County — 1 reader
- County Road 20 — 1 reader
- West 6th Street — 1 reader
- Bopp Boulevard — 1 reader
- North Main Street — 1 reader
- C Avenue — 1 reader
Lakin in the Kearny County picture
Kearny County has 1 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,157 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 3,910 residents and 1,781 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 96% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 8 traffic.
Camera activity around Lakin, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Lakin. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.
What’s watching Lakin
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 Lakin — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Lakin (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Lakin
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Lakin, KS
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Lakin, KS
What you can do in Lakin
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 Lakin
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).