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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Janesville, Wisconsin

Volunteers have reported 22 automated license plate readers in and around Janesville — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 22 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Janesville, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 8 of them sit inside Janesville itself.

The rest sit in Town of La Prairie (6), Town of Janesville (3), Town of Rock (3), Town of Center (1), Town of Harmony (1).

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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22
Reported cameras nearby
#20
of 314 Wisconsin cities tracked
1.1%
of Wisconsin’s reported cameras
Live camera map 22 reported cameras around Janesville, Wisconsin
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Janesville
+0 this week +1 last 30 days −1 removed
  • Sep 27 Flock Safety camera newly reported

Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.

Where the cameras are in Janesville

The readers mapped around Janesville break down as 18 Flock Safety, 2 of unrecorded make, 1 Genetec. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.

  • Janesville — 3 readers
  • Deerfield Drive — 2 readers
  • East Avalon Road — 2 readers
  • County Highway G — 2 readers
  • East County Road A — 1 reader
  • US 14;WI 11 — 1 reader
  • State Highway 11 — 1 reader
  • US Highway 14 — 1 reader
  • North Pontiac Drive — 1 reader
  • East Delavan Drive — 1 reader
  • County Highway J — 1 reader
  • County Road H — 1 reader

+ 4 more streets and roads mapped around Janesville — all on the live map above.

Janesville WI PD and the sharing network

Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Janesville WI PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 80 other agencies.

Janesville in the Rock County picture

Rock County has 38 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,254 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 163,944 residents and 1,483 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 24.3% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 18 traffic.

Camera activity around Janesville, last 30 days

2 newly reported, 2 removed in our hourly change log for Janesville. Latest change logged Sep 7, 2026.

What’s watching Janesville

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 Janesville — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Janesville (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

What you can do in Janesville

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.

Cameras near Janesville

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).