Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lincoln, Nebraska
Volunteers have reported 96 automated license plate readers in and around Lincoln — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 96 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Lincoln, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 92 of them sit inside Lincoln itself.
The rest sit in Oak Precinct (2).
2 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 4 Avigilon camera newly reported
- Oct 4 Avigilon camera newly reported
- Oct 2 Leonardo camera newly reported
- Oct 2 Leonardo camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
📷 17 new license plate readers just reported around Lincoln, NE. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #Lincoln
📷 8 new license plate readers just reported around Lincoln, NE. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #Lincoln
📷 43 new license plate readers just reported around Lincoln, NE. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #Lincoln
Where the cameras are in Lincoln
The readers mapped around Lincoln break down as 40 Avigilon, 11 Flock Safety, 8 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- A Street — 18 readers
- I 80 — 5 readers
- Ridge Line Road — 3 readers
- Baldwin Avenue — 3 readers
- Lincoln — 3 readers
- North 48th Street — 3 readers
- Zermatt Drive — 2 readers
- Apples Way — 2 readers
- Homestead Expressway — 2 readers
- North 63rd Street — 2 readers
- West Opportunity Street — 2 readers
- North 33rd Street — 2 readers
+ 16 more streets and roads mapped around Lincoln — all on the live map above.
Lincoln in the Lancaster County picture
Lancaster County has 31 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,788 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 323,673 residents and 1,962 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 34.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 62 traffic, 3 entrance, 2 parking.
Camera activity around Lincoln, last 30 days
2 newly reported, 5 removed in our hourly change log for Lincoln. Latest change logged Sep 4, 2026.
What’s watching Lincoln
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 Lincoln — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Lincoln (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Lincoln
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Lincoln, NE
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Lincoln, NE
- 17 new license plate readers reported around Lincoln, NE
- 8 new license plate readers reported around Lincoln, NE
What you can do in Lincoln
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 Lincoln
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).