Flock & ALPR Cameras in Big Bend, Wisconsin
Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around Big Bend — 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 Big Bend, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Big Bend itself.
The rest sit in Village of Vernon (2), Muskego (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 13 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Big Bend
The readers mapped around Big Bend break down as 3 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in May 2026.
- Clark Street — 1 reader
- Big Bend Drive — 1 reader
- Janesville Road — 1 reader
Big Bend WI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Big Bend WI PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 59 other agencies.
Big Bend in the Waukesha County picture
Waukesha County has 144 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #881 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 409,040 residents and 2,391 road miles. By road density that is 0.06 cameras per road mile, in the top 10.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 1 traffic.
What’s watching Big Bend
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 Big Bend — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Big Bend (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Big Bend
- Big Bend counties suspend license plate reader programs
- Big Bend authorities respond to Gov. DeSantis’ order to remove ALPR cameras from state roads
What you can do in Big Bend
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 Big Bend
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).