Flock & ALPR Cameras in Altoona, Wisconsin
Volunteers have reported 14 automated license plate readers in and around Altoona — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 14 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Altoona, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 4 of them sit inside Altoona itself.
The rest sit in Eau Claire (8), Town of Washington (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 8 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Altoona
The readers mapped around Altoona break down as 14 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Oakwood Mall Drive — 5 readers
- US Highway 12 — 2 readers
- River Prairie Drive — 2 readers
- US 12 — 1 reader
- State Highway 93 — 1 reader
- Bartlett Avenue — 1 reader
- US 53 — 1 reader
- London Road — 1 reader
Altoona WI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Altoona WI PD runs 11 cameras of its own, has logged 73 plate-database searches, has captured 140,713 vehicle records. Its network connects to 221 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Abbotsford WI PD, Adams County WI SO, Adams WI PD, Amery WI PD, Antigo WI PD, Appleton WI PD, Ashland WI PD, Baldwin WI PD.
Altoona in the Eau Claire County picture
Eau Claire County has 23 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,325 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 106,328 residents and 1,485 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 34.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 11 traffic.
Camera activity around Altoona, last 30 days
2 newly reported, 4 removed in our hourly change log for Altoona. Latest change logged Sep 10, 2026.
What’s watching Altoona
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 Altoona — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Altoona (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Altoona
What you can do in Altoona
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 Altoona
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).