Flock & ALPR Cameras in Rice Lake, Wisconsin
Volunteers have reported 15 automated license plate readers in and around Rice Lake — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 16 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Rice Lake, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 15 of them sit inside Rice Lake itself.
The rest sit in Town of Oak Grove (1).
11 of them name an operator in the record: Barron County Sheriff (6), Barron Co Sheriff (4), Sawyer County Sheriff (1). 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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- Oct 7 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 27 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Rice Lake
The readers mapped around Rice Lake break down as 14 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Barron County Sheriff, Barron Co Sheriff, Sawyer County Sheriff. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in May 2026.
- County Highway O — 2 readers
- South Main Street — 2 readers
- Knapp Avenue — 1 reader
- US 53 — 1 reader
- East Orchard Beach Lane — 1 reader
- East Sawyer Street — 1 reader
- Hammond Avenue — 1 reader
- North Main Street — 1 reader
- Burton Street — 1 reader
- East Allen Street — 1 reader
- Pioneer Avenue — 1 reader
- West Allen Street — 1 reader
Rice Lake WI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Rice Lake WI PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 23 other agencies.
Rice Lake in the Barron County picture
Barron County has 28 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #375 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 17.5% nationally. That’s across 46,741 residents and 2,030 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 36.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 10 traffic. Operators named on the record: Barron County Sheriff (6), Barron Co Sheriff (4), Sawyer County Sheriff (1).
Camera activity around Rice Lake, last 30 days
1 removed in our hourly change log for Rice Lake. Latest change logged Sep 8, 2026.
What’s watching Rice Lake
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 Rice Lake — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Rice Lake (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Rice Lake
- Rice Lake police investigating arson of Flock camera
- Rice Lake police investigating arson of license plate reader camera
- Rice Lake to test automatic license plate reader camera system throughout city
What you can do in Rice Lake
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 Rice Lake
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).