Flock & ALPR Cameras in Onalaska, Wisconsin
Volunteers have reported 10 automated license plate readers in and around Onalaska — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 10 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Onalaska, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 7 of them sit inside Onalaska itself.
The rest sit in Town of Onalaska (2), La Crosse (1).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (2). 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 Onalaska in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:27 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Onalaska
The readers mapped around Onalaska break down as 10 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Feb 2026.
- Midwest Drive — 2 readers
- North Kinney Coulee Road — 2 readers
- Market Place — 1 reader
- WI 16 — 1 reader
- Woodmans Drive — 1 reader
- Rose Street — 1 reader
- Sand Lake Road — 1 reader
- State Highway 35 — 1 reader
Onalaska WI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Onalaska WI PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 75 other agencies.
Onalaska in the La Crosse County picture
La Crosse County has 48 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #732 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 120,262 residents and 1,091 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 14.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 10 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (2).
What’s watching Onalaska
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 Onalaska — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Onalaska (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Onalaska
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 Onalaska
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).