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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Roeland Park, Kansas

Volunteers have reported 31 automated license plate readers in and around Roeland 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 Roeland Park, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 12 of them sit inside Roeland Park itself.

The rest sit in Kansas City (19).

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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31
Reported cameras nearby
#20
of 150 Kansas cities tracked
1.5%
of Kansas’s reported cameras
Live camera map 31 reported cameras around Roeland Park, Kansas
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Roeland Park

No new reports near Roeland Park in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 18:10 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Roeland Park

The readers mapped around Roeland Park break down as 24 Flock Safety, 4 Genetec, 3 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2024; the most recent in May 2026.

  • Access Road — 4 readers
  • West 50th Terrace — 4 readers
  • Metropolitan Avenue — 4 readers
  • Merriam Drive — 3 readers
  • Steele Road — 3 readers
  • Roe Boulevard — 2 readers
  • South 17th Street — 2 readers
  • West 48th Street — 1 reader
  • Roe Lane — 1 reader
  • Levee Road — 1 reader
  • South 12th Street — 1 reader
  • Nall Avenue — 1 reader

+ 4 more streets and roads mapped around Roeland Park — all on the live map above.

Roeland 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 28 traffic.

What’s watching Roeland 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 Roeland Park — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Roeland Park (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

What you can do in Roeland 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.

Cameras near Roeland Park

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).