Flock & ALPR Cameras in Yankton, South Dakota
Volunteers have reported 1 automated license plate readers in and around Yankton — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Yankton in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 18:15 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Yankton
The readers mapped around Yankton break down as 1 Motorola Solutions. Every report here dates to Dec 2025.
- West 2nd Street — 1 reader
Yankton in the Yankton County picture
Yankton County has 2 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,829 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 23,379 residents and 1,042 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 80.5% of counties nationally.
Camera activity around Yankton, last 30 days
1 removed in our hourly change log for Yankton. Latest change logged Sep 7, 2026.
What’s watching Yankton
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 Yankton — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Yankton (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Yankton
- How Russia is using facial recognition to police its coronavirus lockdown – KYNT AM 1450 – Yankton, SD
- Critics call China's mandatory facial recognition tech in cellphones a 'wake up call' – KYNT AM 1450 – Yankton, SD
- Facial-recognition software may be able to identify people based on brain scans – KYNT AM 1450 – Yankton, SD
- New License Plate Imaging Helps Solve Theft Cases , Say Police In Two South Dakota Cities
What you can do in Yankton
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 Yankton
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).