Flock & ALPR Cameras in Ashland, Wisconsin
Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around Ashland — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 4 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Ashland, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Ashland itself.
The rest sit in Town of Barksdale (2), Town of Eileen (1).
3 of them name an operator in the record: Bayfield County Sheriffs Dept (2), Bayfield County Sheriff's Dept (1). 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 Ashland in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 14:13 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Ashland
The readers mapped around Ashland break down as 4 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Bayfield County Sheriffs Dept, Bayfield County Sheriff's Dept. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- State Highway 13 — 2 readers
- Major Richard I. Bong Memorial Highway — 1 reader
- Lake Shore Drive West — 1 reader
Ashland WI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Ashland WI PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 12 other agencies.
Ashland in the Ashland County picture
Ashland County has 2 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,645 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 16,050 residents and 1,646 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 87.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 3 traffic. Operators named on the record: Bayfield County Sheriffs Dept (2), Bayfield County Sheriff's Dept (1).
What’s watching Ashland
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 Ashland — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Ashland (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Ashland
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 Ashland
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).