Flock & ALPR Cameras in North Kansas City, Missouri
Volunteers have reported 44 automated license plate readers in and around North Kansas City — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 43 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of North Kansas City, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 5 of them sit inside North Kansas City itself.
The rest sit in Kansas City (38).
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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- Oct 4 Leonardo camera newly reported
- Oct 4 Leonardo camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in North Kansas City
The readers mapped around North Kansas City break down as 19 Motorola Solutions, 17 Genetec, 5 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Saint John Avenue — 9 readers
- Independence Avenue — 6 readers
- East 9th Street — 3 readers
- Chouteau Trafficway Trail — 3 readers
- East Front Street — 3 readers
- Hardesty Avenue — 2 readers
- Winner Road — 2 readers
- Norton Avenue — 2 readers
- Northeast Parvin Road — 1 reader
- North Winner Road — 1 reader
- Stillwell Avenue — 1 reader
- North Universal Avenue — 1 reader
+ 7 more streets and roads mapped around North Kansas City — all on the live map above.
North 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 37 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (1).
Camera activity around North Kansas City, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for North Kansas City. Latest change logged Sep 5, 2026.
What’s watching North 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 North Kansas City — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to North Kansas City (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around North Kansas City
- 2 new license plate readers reported around North Kansas City, MO
- Tracy, Missouri, expands Flock camera system as other Northland communities pull back
What you can do in North 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 North Kansas City
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).