Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lawrence, Kansas
Volunteers have reported 87 automated license plate readers in and around Lawrence — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 88 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Lawrence, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 85 of them sit inside Lawrence itself.
The rest sit in Kanwaka Township (1), Lecompton (1).
30 of them name an operator in the record: Lawrence Police Department (30). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 24 Axis Communications camera newly reported
- Sep 24 Genetec camera newly reported
- Sep 22 Genetec camera newly reported
- Sep 22 Neology, Inc. camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
📷 8 new license plate readers just reported around Lawrence, KS. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #Lawrence
📷 97 new license plate readers just reported around Lawrence, KS. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #Lawrence
📷 10 new license plate readers just reported around Lawrence, KS. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #Lawrence
Where the cameras are in Lawrence
The readers mapped around Lawrence break down as 109 Axis Communications, 26 of unrecorded make, 12 Genetec. Named operators in the reports: Lawrence Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2023; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- West 6th Street — 18 readers
- Jayhawk Boulevard — 13 readers
- Clinton Parkway — 9 readers
- West 31st Street — 9 readers
- Bob Billings Parkway — 7 readers
- West 27th Street — 6 readers
- Hoch Auditoria Drive — 6 readers
- East 23rd Street — 5 readers
- O'Connell Road — 3 readers
- West 33rd Street — 3 readers
- West 23rd Street — 3 readers
- West 15th Street — 3 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Lawrence — all on the live map above.
Lawrence in the Douglas County picture
Douglas County has 48 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #723 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 119,547 residents and 1,272 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 16.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 120 traffic, 24 street, 1 parking. Operators named on the record: Lawrence Police Department (29).
Camera activity around Lawrence, last 30 days
107 newly reported, 2 removed in our hourly change log for Lawrence. Latest change logged Sep 6, 2026.
What’s watching Lawrence
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 Lawrence — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Lawrence (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Lawrence
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Lawrence, KS
- 6 license plate readers reported removed near Lawrence, KS
- 89 license plate readers reported removed near Lawrence, KS
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Lawrence, KS
What you can do in Lawrence
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 Lawrence
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).