Flock & ALPR Cameras in Saint Francis, Wisconsin
Volunteers have reported 13 automated license plate readers in and around Saint Francis — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 13 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Saint Francis, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Saint Francis itself.
The rest sit in Milwaukee (11), Cudahy (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: The Home Depot (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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No new reports near Saint Francis in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 22:18 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Saint Francis
The readers mapped around Saint Francis break down as 11 Flock Safety, 2 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in May 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- South Howell Avenue — 4 readers
- West Holt Avenue — 3 readers
- John R. Plewa Memorial Lake Parkway — 2 readers
- South Chase Avenue — 1 reader
- East Layton Avenue — 1 reader
- South Lake Drive — 1 reader
- West Plainfield Avenue — 1 reader
Saint Francis WI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Saint Francis WI PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 74 other agencies.
Saint Francis in the Milwaukee County picture
Milwaukee County has 243 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,138 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 11 traffic. Operators named on the record: The Home Depot (1).
Camera activity around Saint Francis, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Saint Francis. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.
What’s watching Saint Francis
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 Saint Francis — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Saint Francis (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Saint Francis
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Saint Francis, WI
- 4 license plate readers reported removed near Saint Francis, WI
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Saint Francis, WI
What you can do in Saint Francis
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 Saint Francis
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).