Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lee's Summit, Missouri
Volunteers have reported 58 automated license plate readers in and around Lee's Summit — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 58 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Lee's Summit, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 54 of them sit inside Lee's Summit itself.
The rest sit in Kansas City (3), Unity Village (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (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 16 Flock camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Lee's Summit
The readers mapped around Lee's Summit break down as 54 Flock Safety, 3 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Northeast Town Centre Boulevard — 5 readers
- Northeast Chipman Road — 4 readers
- Southwest 3rd Street — 4 readers
- Northwest Chipman Road — 4 readers
- Northwest Summit Woods — 4 readers
- Northeast Douglas Street — 3 readers
- Southeast Oldham Parkway — 3 readers
- Northwest Blue Parkway — 2 readers
- Northwest Pryor Road — 2 readers
- Blue Parkway — 2 readers
- I 470;US 50 — 2 readers
- Northwest Gregory Boulevard — 2 readers
+ 16 more streets and roads mapped around Lee's Summit — all on the live map above.
Lee's Summit 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 31 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (1).
Camera activity around Lee's Summit, last 30 days
5 newly reported in our hourly change log for Lee's Summit. Latest change logged Sep 4, 2026.
What’s watching Lee's Summit
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 Lee's Summit — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Lee's Summit (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Lee's Summit
- Lee's Summit police pauses sharing Flock camera data with other jurisdictions
- Lee's Summit police stop sharing Flock camera data with other jurisdictions after community outcry
- Lee's Summit restricts Flock data access by law enforcement after criticism from residents
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Lee's Summit, MO
What you can do in Lee's Summit
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 Lee's Summit
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).