Flock & ALPR Cameras in Eagle River, Wisconsin
Volunteers have reported 3 automated license plate readers in and around Eagle River — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 3 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Eagle River, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Eagle River itself.
The rest sit in Town of Lincoln (2), Town of Three Lakes (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (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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No new reports near Eagle River in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 20:25 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Eagle River
The readers mapped around Eagle River break down as 3 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- State Highway 17 — 1 reader
- US Highway 45 — 1 reader
- State Highway 70 — 1 reader
Eagle River in the Vilas County picture
Vilas County has 11 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #589 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 23,410 residents and 2,376 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 62.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 3 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (1).
What’s watching Eagle River
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 Eagle River — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Eagle River (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Eagle River
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 Eagle River
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).