Flock & ALPR Cameras in Wausau, Wisconsin
Volunteers have reported 20 automated license plate readers in and around Wausau — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 20 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Wausau, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 18 of them sit inside Wausau itself.
The rest sit in Town of Stettin (2).
13 of them name an operator in the record: Wausau Police Department (12), Fleet Farm (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 Wausau in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 00:33 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Wausau
The readers mapped around Wausau break down as 20 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Wausau Police Department, Fleet Farm. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Grand Avenue — 3 readers
- South 17th Avenue — 2 readers
- Sherman Street — 2 readers
- Highway 52 Parkway — 2 readers
- West Bridge Street — 2 readers
- Stewart Avenue — 2 readers
- West Thomas Street — 1 reader
- Merrill Avenue — 1 reader
- East Bridge Street — 1 reader
- East Thomas Street — 1 reader
- South 1st Avenue — 1 reader
- Badger Avenue — 1 reader
+ 1 more streets and roads mapped around Wausau — all on the live map above.
Wausau WI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Wausau WI PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 21 other agencies.
Wausau in the Marathon County picture
Marathon County has 35 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,169 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 138,067 residents and 2,098 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 32.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 19 traffic. Operators named on the record: Wausau Police Department (12), Fleet Farm (1).
What’s watching Wausau
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 Wausau — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Wausau (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Wausau
- Wausau’s police chief stands by Flock as the company rewrites its contract terms
- Kilian: Wausau should reject Flock cameras and the post-9/11 surveillance state
- Winnebago County, WI: Paused
- Wausau police highlight use of FLOCK cameras, downtown patrol successes
What you can do in Wausau
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 Wausau
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).