Flock & ALPR Cameras in Baraboo, Wisconsin
Volunteers have reported 6 automated license plate readers in and around Baraboo — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 6 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Baraboo, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 5 of them sit inside Baraboo itself.
The rest sit in Town of Fairfield (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Baraboo Police Department (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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- Sep 27 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Baraboo
The readers mapped around Baraboo break down as 5 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Baraboo Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- 8th Avenue — 1 reader
- County Highway A — 1 reader
- County Highway DL — 1 reader
- State Highway 113 — 1 reader
- Water Street — 1 reader
Baraboo WI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Baraboo WI PD runs 6 cameras of its own, has logged 9 plate-database searches, has captured 96,976 vehicle records. Its network connects to 76 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Adams County WI SO, Adams WI PD, Appleton WI PD, Beaver Dam WI PD, Burlington WI PD, Columbia County WI SO, Columbus WI PD, Cottage Grove WI PD.
Baraboo in the Sauk County picture
Sauk County has 43 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #313 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 14.6% nationally. That’s across 65,759 residents and 1,467 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 21.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 5 traffic. Operators named on the record: Baraboo Police Department (1).
What’s watching Baraboo
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 Baraboo — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Baraboo (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Baraboo
- Baraboo installs new automated license plate reader camera system
- Baraboo launches automated license plate reader system
- Baraboo Police Department announces installation of automated license plate reader system
- License Plate Reader Cameras Are Coming to Baraboo, Wis.
What you can do in Baraboo
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 Baraboo
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).