Flock & ALPR Cameras in Shawnee, Kansas
Volunteers have reported 47 automated license plate readers in and around Shawnee — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 47 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Shawnee, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 24 of them sit inside Shawnee itself.
The rest sit in Kansas City (23).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (1), The Home Depot (1). 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 24 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Shawnee
The readers mapped around Shawnee break down as 26 Genetec, 19 Flock Safety, 1 Leonardo. Named operators in the reports: The Home Depot, Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- West 65th Street — 5 readers
- Metropolitan Avenue — 5 readers
- State Avenue — 4 readers
- South 55th Street — 4 readers
- Shawnee Mission Parkway — 3 readers
- West 67th Street — 3 readers
- Johnson Drive — 3 readers
- South 42nd Street — 2 readers
- Swartz Road — 2 readers
- Maurer Road — 2 readers
- Lackman Road — 2 readers
- Pflumm Road — 2 readers
+ 9 more streets and roads mapped around Shawnee — all on the live map above.
Shawnee 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 39 traffic, 2 entrance, 1 parking. Operators named on the record: The Home Depot (1), Lowe's (1).
What’s watching Shawnee
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 Shawnee — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Shawnee (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Shawnee
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Shawnee, KS
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Shawnee, KS
What you can do in Shawnee
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 Shawnee
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).