Flock & ALPR Cameras in Kearney, Nebraska
Volunteers have reported 34 automated license plate readers in and around Kearney — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Kearney in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:27 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Kearney
The readers mapped around Kearney break down as 34 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- 2nd Avenue — 8 readers
- East 25th Street — 3 readers
- West 24th Street — 3 readers
- Grand Avenue — 2 readers
- West 11th Street — 2 readers
- West 56th Street — 2 readers
- University Drive — 2 readers
- West 39th Street — 2 readers
- East 39th Street — 1 reader
- Avenue M — 1 reader
- 5th Avenue — 1 reader
- West 13th Street — 1 reader
+ 6 more streets and roads mapped around Kearney — all on the live map above.
Kearney NE PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Kearney NE PD runs 31 cameras of its own, has logged 118 plate-database searches, has captured 205,959 vehicle records. Its network connects to 128 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Antelope County NE SO, Box Butte County NE SO, Brighton CO PD, Buffalo County NE SO, Buhler KS PD, Chadron NE PD, Colby KS PD, NE - Colfax Co SO.
Kearney in the Buffalo County picture
Buffalo County has 29 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #404 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 18.9% nationally. That’s across 50,323 residents and 1,757 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 33.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 32 traffic, 1 street.
Camera activity around Kearney, last 30 days
3 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Kearney. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.
What’s watching Kearney
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 Kearney — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Kearney (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Kearney
- Kearney Police Department’s Lt. Derek Luke speaks on drones, Flock cameras
- On the agenda: Kearney County Agenda — Flock Camera (Sep 8)
- On the agenda: Kearney County Minutes — Flock Camera (Sep 8)
What you can do in Kearney
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 Kearney
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).