Flock & ALPR Cameras in West Salem, Wisconsin
Volunteers have reported 6 automated license plate readers in and around West Salem — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 6 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of West Salem, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 5 of them sit inside West Salem itself.
The rest sit in Town of Hamilton (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near West Salem in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in West Salem
The readers mapped around West Salem break down as 6 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- WI 16 — 2 readers
- WI 16;CTH C — 1 reader
- Buol Road — 1 reader
- Neshonoc Road — 1 reader
- East Jefferson Street — 1 reader
West Salem WI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, West Salem WI PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 21 other agencies.
West Salem in the La Crosse County picture
La Crosse County has 48 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #732 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 120,262 residents and 1,091 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 14.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 6 traffic.
What’s watching West Salem
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 Salem — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to West Salem (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 Salem
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 Salem
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).