Flock & ALPR Cameras in Monona, Wisconsin
Volunteers have reported 7 automated license plate readers in and around Monona — 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 Monona, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 5 of them sit inside Monona itself.
The rest sit in Madison (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 25 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 25 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Monona
The readers mapped around Monona break down as 5 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Jan 2026.
- Monona Drive — 3 readers
- West Broadway — 1 reader
- East Broadway — 1 reader
Monona WI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Monona WI PD runs 4 cameras of its own, has logged 69 plate-database searches, has captured 229,698 vehicle records. Its network connects to 1,532 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: 18th Judicial District Drug Task Force - TN PD, Abbotsford WI PD, Acworth GA PD, Ada County ID SO, Adairville KY PD, Adams County IL SO, Adams County IN SO, Adams County WI SO.
Monona 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 3 traffic.
What’s watching Monona
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 Monona — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Monona (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Monona
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Monona, WI
- On the agenda: Monona meeting — ALPR (Aug 26)
- On the agenda: Monona meeting — ALPR (Jun 24)
- On the agenda: Monona meeting — surveillance camera (Jan 20)
What you can do in Monona
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 Monona
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).