Flock & ALPR Cameras in Kearns, Utah
Volunteers have reported 28 automated license plate readers in and around Kearns — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Cameras Removed
Kearns is on the record here. Unified Police removed license plate readers in Kearns, Utah after public backlash.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 28 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Kearns, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 6 of them sit inside Kearns itself.
The rest sit in Taylorsville (9), West Valley City (7), West Jordan (6).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 7 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Kearns
The readers mapped around Kearns break down as 23 Flock Safety, 3 Motorola Solutions, 2 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- 6200 South — 5 readers
- 4000 West — 3 readers
- Bangerter Highway — 3 readers
- 4715 South — 3 readers
- Simper Lane — 2 readers
- 5400 South — 2 readers
- 3200 West — 1 reader
- Muirhouse Drive — 1 reader
- 3600 West — 1 reader
- Center Park Drive — 1 reader
- Airport Road — 1 reader
- 5415 South — 1 reader
+ 4 more streets and roads mapped around Kearns — all on the live map above.
Kearns in the Salt Lake County picture
Salt Lake County has 329 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,089 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,184,689 residents and 4,609 road miles. By road density that is 0.07 cameras per road mile, in the top 8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 27 traffic.
Camera activity around Kearns, last 30 days
4 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Kearns. Latest change logged Sep 11, 2026.
What’s watching Kearns
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 Kearns — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Kearns (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Kearns
- Daily news: Kearns took down Flock-like cameras
- Daily news: Kearns took down Flock-like cameras. Police call it a ‘huge loss’
- UPD removes Kearns license plate readers after public backlash
- The Unified Police Department removed its automated license plate readers in Kearns after public backlash
What you can do in Kearns
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 Kearns
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).