Flock & ALPR Cameras in Cottage Grove, Wisconsin
Volunteers have reported 11 automated license plate readers in and around Cottage Grove — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 11 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Cottage Grove, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Cottage Grove itself.
The rest sit in Village of Cottage Grove (8), Town of Cottage Grove (2), Madison (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Cottage Grove in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Cottage Grove
The readers mapped around Cottage Grove break down as 11 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in May 2025; the most recent in Mar 2026.
- County Highway N — 3 readers
- Cottage Grove Road — 2 readers
- North Main Street — 2 readers
- East Cottage Grove Road — 1 reader
- Gaston Road — 1 reader
- Vilas Road — 1 reader
- South Main Street — 1 reader
Cottage Grove WI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Cottage Grove WI PD runs 12 cameras of its own, has logged 18 plate-database searches, has captured 111,842 vehicle records. Its network connects to 1,490 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: 18th Judicial District Drug Task Force - TN PD, Abbotsford WI PD, Acworth GA PD, Ada County ID SO, Adairville KY PD, Adams County IL SO, Adams County WI SO, Adams WI PD.
Cottage Grove in the Dane County picture
Dane County has 114 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,378 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 564,777 residents and 3,435 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 19% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 9 traffic.
What’s watching Cottage Grove
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 Cottage Grove — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Cottage Grove (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Cottage Grove
- By different routes, Cottage Grove, Waunakee part with Flock
- In the minutes: Cottagegrove meeting, Flock Safety (Oct 5)
- On the agenda: Cottagegrove meeting — Flock Safety (Sep 21)
- On the agenda: Cottagegrove meeting — Flock Camera (Jun 24)
What you can do in Cottage Grove
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 Cottage Grove
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).