Flock & ALPR Cameras in Merriam, Kansas
Volunteers have reported 49 automated license plate readers in and around Merriam — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 49 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Merriam, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 24 of them sit inside Merriam itself.
The rest sit in Shawnee (20), Kansas City (4), Lenexa (1).
2 of them name an operator in the record: The Home Depot (2). 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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- Sep 25 Genetec camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Merriam
The readers mapped around Merriam break down as 35 Genetec, 11 Flock Safety, 1 Neology, Inc.. Named operators in the reports: The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Shawnee Mission Parkway — 8 readers
- Johnson Drive — 7 readers
- Antioch Road — 7 readers
- Quivira Road — 5 readers
- West 67th Street — 4 readers
- Shawnee Drive — 3 readers
- West 75th Street — 3 readers
- Eby Avenue — 2 readers
- I 35 — 2 readers
- Antioch Park Road — 1 reader
- East Frontage Road — 1 reader
- Access Road — 1 reader
+ 4 more streets and roads mapped around Merriam — all on the live map above.
Merriam 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 46 traffic, 2 park. Operators named on the record: The Home Depot (2).
Camera activity around Merriam, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Merriam. Latest change logged Aug 28, 2026.
What’s watching Merriam
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 Merriam — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Merriam (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Merriam
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Merriam, KS
- Merriam to install license plate cameras at two busy intersections to aid criminal investigations
What you can do in Merriam
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 Merriam
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).