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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Ord, Nebraska

No cameras reported in and around Ord — yet. That usually means nobody has checked, not that the roads are clear. Be the one who looks.

On the record · Contract Canceled

Ord is on the record here. Ord, NE terminated its Flock Safety contract covering 2 cameras. Cited reasons: Public backlash; Privacy concerns; First Nebraska municipal reject.

Full record · Source document

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 4 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Ord, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Ord itself.

The rest sit in North Loup (1).

3 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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Zero reported ≠ zero cameras

Help put Ord on the map

The camera map is built by volunteers, one report at a time — and nobody has surveyed Ord yet. ALPRs look like small gray cameras on poles, often solar-powered, near intersections and shopping centers. Spot one? Reporting takes about a minute.

Live camera map The map around Ord, Nebraska
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Ord

No new reports near Ord in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 12, 06:53 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Ord

The readers mapped around Ord break down as 4 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2026; the most recent in Jun 2026.

  • Highway 11 — 2 readers
  • Highway 70 — 1 reader
  • Highway 22 — 1 reader

Ord in the Valley County picture

Valley County has 8 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #23 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 1% nationally. That’s across 4,094 residents and 1,029 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 50.1% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 3 traffic.

Why this page exists

Automated license plate readers are spreading town by town, usually with no public vote — volunteers have already mapped 609 across Nebraska. Cameras often arrive quietly in towns exactly like Ord: a council consent-agenda item, then poles by the grocery store. Learn what they look like, check the roads you drive daily, and this page will update as reports come in.

The latest around Ord

What you can do in Ord

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.

Cameras near Ord

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).