Flock & ALPR Cameras in Platteville, Wisconsin
Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around Platteville — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 8 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Platteville, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 6 of them sit inside Platteville itself.
The rest sit in Town of Belmont (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Platteville in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 9, 16:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Platteville
The readers mapped around Platteville break down as 6 of unrecorded make, 2 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Feb 2025.
- East Business Highway 151 — 3 readers
- US 151 — 2 readers
- South Water Street — 2 readers
- West Business Highway 151 — 1 reader
Platteville in the Grant County picture
Grant County has 13 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,180 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 51,678 residents and 1,973 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 54% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 8 traffic.
What’s watching Platteville
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 Platteville — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Platteville (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Platteville
- In the minutes: Platteville Packet, Flock Safety (Aug 11)
- In the minutes: Platteville Minutes, Flock Safety (Jul 28)
- On the agenda: Platteville Packet — License Plate Reader (Jul 20)
What you can do in Platteville
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 Platteville
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).