Flock & ALPR Cameras in Germantown, Wisconsin
Volunteers have reported 3 automated license plate readers in and around Germantown — 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 Germantown, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Germantown itself.
The rest sit in Village of Germantown (3).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Germantown Police Department (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 Germantown in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 16:22 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Germantown
The readers mapped around Germantown break down as 3 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Germantown Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Lannon Road — 1 reader
- Buckthorn Drive — 1 reader
- Fond du Lac Avenue — 1 reader
Germantown WI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Germantown WI PD runs 11 cameras of its own, has logged 148 plate-database searches, has captured 249,331 vehicle records. Its network connects to 211 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Abbotsford WI PD, Adams County WI SO, Adams WI PD, Altoona WI PD, Amery WI PD, Antigo WI PD, Appleton WI PD, Ashland WI PD.
Germantown in the Washington County picture
Washington County has 42 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,006 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 137,320 residents and 1,107 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 16.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic, 1 park. Operators named on the record: Germantown Police Department (1).
What’s watching Germantown
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 Germantown — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Germantown (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Germantown
- On the agenda: Germantown Committee of the Whole — ALPR (Sep 24)
- On the agenda: Germantown Public Safety Committee — ALPR (Sep 8)
- Flock security camera near Germantown park causing controversy
What you can do in Germantown
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 Germantown
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).