Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lenexa, Kansas
Volunteers have reported 76 automated license plate readers in and around Lenexa — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 76 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Lenexa, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 38 of them sit inside Lenexa itself.
The rest sit in Overland Park (27), Olathe (8), Shawnee (3).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 6 unknown camera newly reported
- Oct 6 unknown camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Lenexa
The readers mapped around Lenexa break down as 29 Genetec, 27 Leonardo, 20 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- West 95th Street — 12 readers
- West 87th Street Parkway — 6 readers
- West 119th Street — 6 readers
- Overland Park — 6 readers
- Quivira Road — 5 readers
- West 87th Street — 4 readers
- West 135th Street — 4 readers
- Prairie Star Parkway — 4 readers
- Scheels Drive — 3 readers
- Sante Fe Trail Drive — 3 readers
- Lackman Road — 3 readers
- West 97th Street — 2 readers
+ 14 more streets and roads mapped around Lenexa — all on the live map above.
Lenexa in the Johnson County picture
Johnson County has 455 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #224 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 10.4% nationally. That’s across 614,764 residents and 2,568 road miles. By road density that is 0.18 cameras per road mile, in the top 1.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 74 traffic, 2 parking. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (1).
Camera activity around Lenexa, last 30 days
1 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Lenexa. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.
What’s watching Lenexa
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 Lenexa — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Lenexa (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Lenexa
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Lenexa, KS
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Lenexa, KS
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Lenexa, KS
What you can do in Lenexa
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 Lenexa
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).