Flock & ALPR Cameras in Liberal, Kansas
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Liberal — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Liberal in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 18:54 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Liberal
The readers mapped around Liberal break down as 5 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Jan 2026.
- The Yellow Brick Road — 3 readers
- US 83 — 1 reader
- South Country Estates Road — 1 reader
Liberal in the Seward County picture
Seward County has 6 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,091 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 21,640 residents and 1,515 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 66% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 5 traffic.
Camera activity around Liberal, last 30 days
1 removed in our hourly change log for Liberal. Latest change logged Aug 18, 2026.
What’s watching Liberal
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 Liberal — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Liberal (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Liberal
- Liberal San Francisco is keeping its Flock cameras
- Get Flock’d: Liberal Tempe, Deep-Red Cave Creek End Camera Contracts the Same Day
- Conservative And Liberal States Seem United In Their Dislike Of Flock Cameras
- Liberal towns backtrack on license plate trackers amid concerns about privacy — and Trump
What you can do in Liberal
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 Liberal
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).