Flock & ALPR Cameras in McFarland, Wisconsin
Volunteers have reported 1 automated license plate readers in and around McFarland — 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 McFarland, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside McFarland itself.
The rest sit in Madison (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near McFarland in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 18:10 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in McFarland
The readers mapped around McFarland break down as 1 of unrecorded make. Every report here dates to Jan 2026.
- Evan Acres Road — 1 reader
McFarland WI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, McFarland WI PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 19 other agencies.
McFarland 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.
Camera activity around McFarland, last 30 days
1 removed in our hourly change log for McFarland. Latest change logged Aug 28, 2026.
What’s watching McFarland
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 McFarland — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to McFarland (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in McFarland
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 McFarland
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).