Flock & ALPR Cameras in Mission, Kansas
Volunteers have reported 42 automated license plate readers in and around Mission — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 42 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Mission, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 30 of them sit inside Mission itself.
The rest sit in Kansas City (9), Overland Park (2), Prairie Village (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 10 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 10 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 10 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Mission
The readers mapped around Mission break down as 17 Genetec, 13 Motorola Solutions, 12 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Johnson Drive — 9 readers
- Lamar Avenue — 4 readers
- West 51st Street — 4 readers
- Rock Creek Trail — 3 readers
- Foxridge Drive — 3 readers
- Shawnee Drive — 3 readers
- South 40th Street — 3 readers
- Metcalf Avenue — 2 readers
- Broadmoor Street — 2 readers
- South 34th Street — 2 readers
- Shawnee Mission Parkway — 2 readers
- Mission — 1 reader
+ 4 more streets and roads mapped around Mission — all on the live map above.
Mission 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 35 traffic.
Camera activity around Mission, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Mission. Latest change logged Sep 10, 2026.
What’s watching Mission
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 Mission — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Mission (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Mission
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Mission, KS
- On the agenda: Junction City City Commission Meeting — Flock Camera (Oct 6)
- On the agenda: Mission Hills meeting — License Plate Reader (Sep 14)
- On the agenda: Manhattan Board of County Commissioners Meeting — surveillance camera (Sep 10)
What you can do in Mission
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 Mission
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).