Flock & ALPR Cameras in Wichita, Kansas
Volunteers have reported 177 automated license plate readers in and around Wichita — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 179 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Wichita, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 177 of them sit inside Wichita itself.
The rest sit in Eastborough (2).
8 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (3), Walmart (2), Wichita Police Department (2), 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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- Oct 5 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 21 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 11 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 7 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Wichita
The readers mapped around Wichita break down as 172 Flock Safety, 3 LiveView Technologies, 1 Flock. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's, Wichita Police Department, Walmart. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- East 13th Street North — 9 readers
- South Broadway Avenue — 7 readers
- West 21st Street North — 7 readers
- East Douglas Avenue — 6 readers
- North Hillside Street — 6 readers
- East 21st Street North — 6 readers
- West Kellogg Drive — 5 readers
- East Harry Street — 5 readers
- East Lincoln Street — 5 readers
- West McCormick Street — 5 readers
- West Central Avenue — 4 readers
- West 23rd Street North — 4 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Wichita — all on the live map above.
Wichita KS PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Wichita KS PD runs 191 cameras of its own, has logged 2,920 plate-database searches, has captured 840,520 vehicle records. Its network connects to 218 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Abilene KS PD, Allen County KS Communications Center, Allen County KS SO, Andover KS PD, Augusta KS DPS, Avon IN PD, Ballwin MO PD, Barber County KS SO.
Wichita in the Sedgwick County picture
Sedgwick County has 436 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #168 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 7.8% nationally. That’s across 524,810 residents and 2,796 road miles. By road density that is 0.16 cameras per road mile, in the top 2.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 118 traffic, 3 parking. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (3), Wichita Police Department (2), Walmart (2).
Camera activity around Wichita, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Wichita. Latest change logged Sep 11, 2026.
What’s watching Wichita
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 Wichita — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Wichita (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Wichita
- Wichita man charged with capital murder in deaths of parents, sister
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- Wichita seeks to dismiss Flock cameras lawsuit
What you can do in Wichita
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 Wichita
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).