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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Spooner, Wisconsin

Volunteers have reported 1 automated license plate readers in and around Spooner — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 1 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Spooner, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Spooner itself.

The rest sit in Town of Evergreen (1).

1 of them name an operator in the record: Washburn 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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Reported cameras nearby
#272
of 314 Wisconsin cities tracked
0.1%
of Wisconsin’s reported cameras
Live camera map 1 reported cameras around Spooner, Wisconsin
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Spooner

No new reports near Spooner in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 14:12 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Spooner

The readers mapped around Spooner break down as 1 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Washburn County Sheriff. Every report here dates to Sep 2025.

  • State Highway 70 — 1 reader

Spooner in the Washburn County picture

Washburn County has 4 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,225 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 16,749 residents and 1,233 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 71.1% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 1 traffic. Operators named on the record: Washburn County Sheriff (1).

What’s watching Spooner

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 Spooner — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Spooner (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

What you can do in Spooner

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.

Cameras near Spooner

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).