Flock & ALPR Cameras in Wellsville, Kansas
Volunteers have reported 3 automated license plate readers in and around Wellsville — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Wellsville in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 00:10 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Wellsville
The readers mapped around Wellsville break down as 3 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in May 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- KS 33 — 1 reader
- Thomas Road — 1 reader
- East 10th Street — 1 reader
Wellsville PD KS and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Wellsville PD KS appears in the sharing network with connections to 6 other agencies.
Wellsville in the Franklin County picture
Franklin County has 5 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,413 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 25,994 residents and 1,409 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 69.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 3 traffic.
What’s watching Wellsville
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 Wellsville — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Wellsville (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Wellsville
- Wellsville, Kansas, Police Department Ends Flock Camera Program After Community Privacy Concerns
- Wellsville, Kansas, Police Department to no longer use Flock cameras
- Wellsville, Kansas, Police Department ditching Flock camera system after community concerns
What you can do in Wellsville
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 Wellsville
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).