Flock & ALPR Cameras in Butler, Wisconsin
Volunteers have reported 33 automated license plate readers in and around Butler — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 33 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Butler, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Butler itself.
The rest sit in Wauwatosa (15), Milwaukee (9), Menomonee Falls (5), Brookfield (4).
9 of them name an operator in the record: Menomonee Falls (5), Lowe's (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 Butler in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 16:21 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Butler
The readers mapped around Butler break down as 31 Flock Safety, 2 Genetec. Named operators in the reports: Menomonee Falls, Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- West Burleigh Street — 10 readers
- North 91st Street — 3 readers
- West Silver Spring Drive — 2 readers
- North 124th Street — 2 readers
- Foundry Way — 2 readers
- Appleton Avenue — 1 reader
- Mill Road — 1 reader
- Silver Spring Drive — 1 reader
- Hampton Road — 1 reader
- Capitol Drive — 1 reader
- Burleigh Road — 1 reader
- West Mill Road — 1 reader
+ 7 more streets and roads mapped around Butler — all on the live map above.
Butler 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 29 traffic. Operators named on the record: Menomonee Falls (5), Lowe's (4).
Camera activity around Butler, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Butler. Latest change logged Sep 1, 2026.
What’s watching Butler
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 Butler — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Butler (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Butler
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 Butler
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).