Flock & ALPR Cameras in West Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Volunteers have reported 29 automated license plate readers in and around West Milwaukee — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 29 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of West Milwaukee, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside West Milwaukee itself.
The rest sit in Milwaukee (16), West Allis (11), Greenfield (2).
12 of them name an operator in the record: West Allis (9), Greenfield (3). 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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- Sep 30 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in West Milwaukee
The readers mapped around West Milwaukee break down as 25 Flock Safety, 2 Genetec, 1 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: West Allis, Greenfield. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- West Greenfield Avenue — 4 readers
- West National Avenue — 3 readers
- South 27th Street — 3 readers
- West Burnham Street — 2 readers
- West Beloit Road — 2 readers
- North 35th Street — 2 readers
- South Layton Boulevard — 2 readers
- Hank Aaron State Trail — 1 reader
- West Lincoln Avenue — 1 reader
- South 60th Street — 1 reader
- South 35th Street — 1 reader
- West Howard Avenue — 1 reader
+ 5 more streets and roads mapped around West Milwaukee — all on the live map above.
West Milwaukee 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 23 traffic. Operators named on the record: West Allis (9), Greenfield (3).
Camera activity around West Milwaukee, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for West Milwaukee. Latest change logged Aug 22, 2026.
What’s watching West Milwaukee
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 West Milwaukee — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to West Milwaukee (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in West Milwaukee
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 West Milwaukee
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).