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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Rapid City, South Dakota

Volunteers have reported 11 automated license plate readers in and around Rapid City — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

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of 25 South Dakota cities tracked

5.9%

of South Dakota’s reported cameras

Live camera map 11 reported cameras around Rapid City, South Dakota

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 Rapid City

No new reports near Rapid City in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 11:24 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Rapid City

The readers mapped around Rapid City break down as 7 Flock Safety, 4 Axon Enterprise. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.

Eglin Street — 5 readers
Haines Avenue — 1 reader
Mall Drive — 1 reader
Saint Cloud Street — 1 reader
Skyline Drive — 1 reader
East Boulevard — 1 reader
East Anamosa Street — 1 reader

Rapid City in the Pennington County picture

Pennington County has 8 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,882 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 112,081 residents and 3,685 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 78.4% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 8 traffic.

What’s watching Rapid City

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 Rapid City — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Rapid City (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

The latest around Rapid City

What you can do in Rapid City

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 Rapid City

Rapid Valley (4) Blackhawk (1) Summerset (4) Sturgis (1)

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