Flock & ALPR Cameras in Overland Park, Kansas
Volunteers have reported 32 automated license plate readers in and around Overland Park — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 31 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Overland Park, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 21 of them sit inside Overland Park itself.
The rest sit in Prairie Village (6), Merriam (2), Shawnee (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 6 unknown camera newly reported
- Oct 6 Genetec camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Overland Park
The readers mapped around Overland Park break down as 20 Genetec, 10 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- Metcalf Avenue — 8 readers
- West 75th Street — 5 readers
- West 83rd Street — 3 readers
- Nall Avenue — 2 readers
- Barkley Street — 2 readers
- West 79th Street — 2 readers
- Switzer Street — 1 reader
- Somerset Drive — 1 reader
- East Frontage Road — 1 reader
- Lamar Avenue — 1 reader
- Kings Cove Drive — 1 reader
- West 110th Street — 1 reader
+ 2 more streets and roads mapped around Overland Park — all on the live map above.
Overland Park KS PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Overland Park KS PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 23 other agencies.
Overland Park 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 27 traffic, 2 street, 1 parking.
What’s watching Overland Park
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 Overland Park — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Overland Park (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Overland Park
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Overland Park, KS
- Overland Park launches public tracker to see every police drone flight
What you can do in Overland Park
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 Overland Park
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).