Flock & ALPR Cameras in Grand Island, Nebraska
Volunteers have reported 16 automated license plate readers in and around Grand Island — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 18 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Grand Island, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 9 of them sit inside Grand Island itself.
The rest sit in Doniphan (2), Alda (1).
6 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 9 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Grand Island
The readers mapped around Grand Island break down as 12 Flock Safety, 5 Motorola Solutions, 1 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- I 80 — 4 readers
- West Wood River Road — 1 reader
- US Highway 281 — 1 reader
- West 3rd Street — 1 reader
- East Front Street — 1 reader
- West State Street — 1 reader
- North Broadwell Avenue — 1 reader
- East 4th Street — 1 reader
- West Highway 34 — 1 reader
- West Highway 30 — 1 reader
- South Locust Street — 1 reader
- North Webb Road — 1 reader
+ 3 more streets and roads mapped around Grand Island — all on the live map above.
Grand Island NE PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Grand Island NE PD runs 9 cameras of its own, has logged 144 plate-database searches, has captured 136,475 vehicle records. Its network connects to 1,178 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Abbotsford WI PD, Abilene KS PD, Acworth GA PD, Ada County ID SO, Ada OK PD, Adairville KY PD, Adams County IL SO, Adams County WI SO.
Grand Island in the Hall County picture
Hall County has 12 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,415 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 62,431 residents and 1,666 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 52.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 15 traffic.
Camera activity around Grand Island, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Grand Island. Latest change logged Sep 9, 2026.
What’s watching Grand Island
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 Grand Island — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Grand Island (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Grand Island
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Grand Island, NE
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Grand Island, NE
What you can do in Grand Island
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 Grand Island
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).