Flock & ALPR Cameras in Appleton, Wisconsin
Volunteers have reported 42 automated license plate readers in and around Appleton — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Contract Canceled
Appleton is on the record here. Appleton's mayor announced that the city will stop using Flock due to community feedback and concerns over the integrity of the system.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 42 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Appleton, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 18 of them sit inside Appleton itself.
The rest sit in Town of Grand Chute (22), Menasha (2).
4 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (4). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Appleton in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 21:31 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Appleton
The readers mapped around Appleton break down as 34 Flock Safety, 4 Leonardo, 3 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- West Wisconsin Avenue — 7 readers
- West College Avenue — 5 readers
- West Northland Avenue — 5 readers
- Fox Cities Paper Trail — 3 readers
- North Casaloma Drive — 3 readers
- Appleton Road — 2 readers
- North Richmond Street — 2 readers
- East Northland Avenue — 2 readers
- South Memorial Drive — 2 readers
- South Bluemound Drive — 1 reader
- South Oneida Street — 1 reader
- West Washington Street — 1 reader
+ 9 more streets and roads mapped around Appleton — all on the live map above.
Appleton WI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Appleton WI PD runs 20 cameras of its own, has logged 260 plate-database searches, has captured 364,709 vehicle records. Its network connects to 248 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, Altoona WI PD, Amery WI PD, Antigo WI PD, Ashland County WI SO, Baldwin WI PD.
Appleton in the Outagamie County picture
Outagamie County has 80 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #683 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 191,537 residents and 1,293 road miles. By road density that is 0.06 cameras per road mile, in the top 9.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 39 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (4).
Camera activity around Appleton, last 30 days
6 newly reported, 26 removed in our hourly change log for Appleton. Latest change logged Aug 29, 2026.
What’s watching Appleton
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 Appleton — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Appleton (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Appleton
- On the agenda: Appleton Safety and Licensing Committee — Automated License Plate (Sep 9)
- 15 license plate readers reported removed near Appleton, WI
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Appleton, WI
- 10 license plate readers reported removed near Appleton, WI
What you can do in Appleton
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 Appleton
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).