Flock & ALPR Cameras in Kansas City, Missouri
Volunteers have reported 216 automated license plate readers in and around Kansas City — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 304 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Kansas City, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 302 of them sit inside Kansas City itself.
The rest sit in Mission Hills (1), Prairie Village (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Kansas City in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 21:33 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
📷 15 new license plate readers just reported around Kansas City, MO. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #KansasCity
Where the cameras are in Kansas City
The readers mapped around Kansas City break down as 200 Genetec, 72 Motorola Solutions, 33 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- East Linwood Boulevard — 13 readers
- East 39th Street — 13 readers
- The Paseo — 12 readers
- East Truman Road — 12 readers
- Prospect Avenue — 11 readers
- West 47th Street — 10 readers
- East 35th Street — 10 readers
- Troost Avenue — 9 readers
- East 27th Street — 9 readers
- Independence Boulevard — 8 readers
- Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard — 8 readers
- Charlotte Street — 8 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Kansas City — all on the live map above.
Kansas City MO PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Kansas City MO PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 101 other agencies.
Kansas City in the Jackson County picture
Jackson County has 580 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #184 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 8.6% nationally. That’s across 717,021 residents and 3,599 road miles. By road density that is 0.16 cameras per road mile, in the top 2.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 304 traffic.
Camera activity around Kansas City, last 30 days
5 newly reported in our hourly change log for Kansas City. Latest change logged Aug 31, 2026.
What’s watching Kansas City
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 Kansas City — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Kansas City (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Kansas City
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Kansas City, MO
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Kansas City, MO
- 15 new license plate readers reported around Kansas City, MO
- 15 new license plate readers reported around Kansas City, MO
What you can do in Kansas City
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 Kansas City
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).