Flock & ALPR Cameras in Marathon, Wisconsin
Volunteers have reported 1 automated license plate readers in and around Marathon — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 1 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Marathon, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Marathon itself.
The rest sit in Marathon City (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Marathon in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 00:36 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Marathon
The readers mapped around Marathon break down as 1 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Jul 2026.
- Maratech Avenue — 1 reader
Marathon in the Marathon County picture
Marathon County has 35 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,169 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 138,067 residents and 2,098 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 32.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 1 traffic.
What’s watching Marathon
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 Marathon — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Marathon (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Marathon
- Is Flock selling your data? What the contracts say, why Wisconsin agencies are leaving, and where Marathon County and Wausau stand
- Marathon County sheriff will keep Flock cameras as more than a dozen Wisconsin agencies drop them
- Will Wausau and Marathon County drop Flock? One could leave for $4,000. The other says it can't.
- Wisconsin agencies pull Flock cameras as Wausau, Marathon County contracts face scrutiny
What you can do in Marathon
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 Marathon
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).