Flock & ALPR Cameras in Elwood, Nebraska
Volunteers have reported 1 automated license plate readers in and around Elwood — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 2 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Elwood, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Elwood itself.
The rest sit in Smithfield (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Elwood in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 19:53 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Elwood
The readers mapped around Elwood break down as 2 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2026; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Highway 23 — 2 readers
Elwood in the Gosper County picture
Gosper County has 3 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #35 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 1.6% nationally. That’s across 1,929 residents and 784 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 67.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic.
What’s watching Elwood
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 Elwood — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Elwood (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Elwood
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 Elwood
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).