Flock & ALPR Cameras in Friend, Nebraska
Volunteers have reported 1 automated license plate readers in and around Friend — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Friend in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:15 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Friend
The readers mapped around Friend break down as 1 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Jul 2026.
- State Street — 1 reader
Friend in the Saline County picture
Saline County has 1 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,902 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 14,642 residents and 731 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 85.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 1 traffic.
What’s watching Friend
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 Friend — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Friend (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Friend
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What you can do in Friend
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 Friend
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).