Flock & ALPR Cameras in Madison, Wisconsin
Volunteers have reported 7 automated license plate readers in and around Madison — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 7 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Madison, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 4 of them sit inside Madison itself.
The rest sit in Fitchburg (3).
4 of them name an operator in the record: Wisconsin State Capitol Police Department (4). 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 Madison in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 21:32 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Madison
The readers mapped around Madison break down as 5 Flock Safety, 2 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Wisconsin State Capitol Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Madison — 4 readers
- Fish Hatchery Road — 2 readers
- East Badger Road — 1 reader
Madison 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 6 traffic, 1 parking. Operators named on the record: Wisconsin State Capitol Police Department (4).
Camera activity around Madison, last 30 days
6 removed in our hourly change log for Madison. Latest change logged Aug 27, 2026.
What’s watching Madison
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 Madison — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Madison (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Madison
- 5 license plate readers reported removed near Madison, WI
- UW-Madison will stop sharing Flock camera data with Wisconsin counties tied to ICE
- More than 80 license plate cameras are operating in the Madison area
- Madison Wisconsin Considering Facial Recognition Ban | | Tenth Amendment Center Blog
What you can do in Madison
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 Madison
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).