Flock & ALPR Cameras in Columbus, Wisconsin
Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around Columbus — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 8 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Columbus, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 5 of them sit inside Columbus itself.
The rest sit in Town of Elba (3).
4 of them name an operator in the record: Columbia County (2), Dodge County (2). 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 Columbus in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 22:16 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Columbus
The readers mapped around Columbus break down as 8 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Dodge County, Columbia County. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in May 2026.
- James Street — 2 readers
- Lowell Street — 1 reader
- State Highway 60 — 1 reader
- State Highway 16 — 1 reader
- US 151 — 1 reader
- Park Avenue — 1 reader
- Highway 16 & 60 — 1 reader
Columbus WI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Columbus WI PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 18 other agencies.
Columbus in the Columbia County picture
Columbia County has 31 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #467 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 21.8% nationally. That’s across 58,322 residents and 1,235 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 24.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 8 traffic. Operators named on the record: Dodge County (2), Columbia County (2).
What’s watching Columbus
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 Columbus — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Columbus (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Columbus
What you can do in Columbus
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 Columbus
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).