Flock & ALPR Cameras in Westwood, Kansas
Volunteers have reported 100 automated license plate readers in and around Westwood — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 18 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Westwood, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Westwood itself.
The rest sit in Kansas City (15), Fairway (2), Mission Woods (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Westwood in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 9, 03:14 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Westwood
The readers mapped around Westwood break down as 13 Genetec, 5 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2024; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- Rainbow Boulevard — 5 readers
- Olathe Boulevard — 4 readers
- Belinder Road — 2 readers
- South 7th Street Trafficway — 2 readers
- Cambridge Street — 2 readers
- Southwest Boulevard — 1 reader
- West 39th Avenue — 1 reader
- Shawnee Mission Parkway — 1 reader
Westwood 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 15 traffic, 3 parking.
What’s watching Westwood
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 Westwood — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Westwood (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Westwood
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Westwood, KS
- 3 license plate readers reported removed near Westwood, KS
What you can do in Westwood
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 Westwood
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).