Flock & ALPR Cameras in Stoughton, Wisconsin
Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around Stoughton — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Contract Canceled
Stoughton is on the record here. Stoughton, WI terminated its Flock Safety contract covering 5 cameras. Cited reasons: Public backlash; Privacy concerns; Early buyout of two-year contract.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 4 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Stoughton, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Stoughton itself.
The rest sit in Town of Dunn (3).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Stoughton in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 18:58 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Stoughton
The readers mapped around Stoughton break down as 3 Neology, Inc., 1 Leonardo. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in May 2026.
- US Highway 51 — 2 readers
- East Main Street — 1 reader
- Starr School Road — 1 reader
Stoughton WI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Stoughton WI PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 14 other agencies.
Stoughton in the Dane County picture
Dane County has 114 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,378 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 564,777 residents and 3,435 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 19% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 4 traffic.
Camera activity around Stoughton, last 30 days
3 removed in our hourly change log for Stoughton. Latest change logged Aug 28, 2026.
What’s watching Stoughton
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 Stoughton — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Stoughton (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Stoughton
What you can do in Stoughton
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 Stoughton
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).