Flock & ALPR Cameras in Prairie Village, Kansas
Volunteers have reported 45 automated license plate readers in and around Prairie Village — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 38 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Prairie Village, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 37 of them sit inside Prairie Village itself.
The rest sit in Mission Hills (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Prairie Village in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 22:21 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Prairie Village
The readers mapped around Prairie Village break down as 36 Genetec, 2 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- West 75th Street — 9 readers
- West 79th Street — 7 readers
- Tomahawk Road — 5 readers
- Mission Road — 5 readers
- West 71st Street — 4 readers
- Somerset Drive — 4 readers
- Nall Avenue — 1 reader
- West 67th Street — 1 reader
- Roe Avenue — 1 reader
- West 70th Terrace — 1 reader
Prairie Village 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 38 traffic.
What’s watching Prairie Village
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 Prairie Village — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Prairie Village (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Prairie Village
- Prairie Village receives grant to pay for license plate readers
- Prairie Village to put license plate readers and traffic cameras at 25+ intersections
What you can do in Prairie Village
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 Prairie Village
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).