Flock & ALPR Cameras in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin
Volunteers have reported 9 automated license plate readers in and around Wisconsin Rapids — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 9 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Wisconsin Rapids, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 8 of them sit inside Wisconsin Rapids itself.
The rest sit in Town of Seneca (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 3 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Wisconsin Rapids
The readers mapped around Wisconsin Rapids break down as 9 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Plover Road — 2 readers
- WI 13;WI 34 — 1 reader
- 8th Street South — 1 reader
- Kingston Road — 1 reader
- State Highway 73 — 1 reader
- Lincoln Street — 1 reader
- Gaynor Avenue — 1 reader
- 17th Avenue South — 1 reader
Wisconsin Rapids WI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Wisconsin Rapids WI PD runs 6 cameras of its own, has logged 63 plate-database searches, has captured 107,163 vehicle records. Its network connects to 244 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Abbotsford WI PD, Adams County WI SO, Adams WI PD, Altoona WI PD, Amery WI PD, Antigo WI PD, Appleton WI PD, Ashland County WI SO.
Wisconsin Rapids in the Wood County picture
Wood County has 13 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,471 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 74,039 residents and 1,619 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 49.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 8 traffic.
Camera activity around Wisconsin Rapids, last 30 days
3 newly reported, 2 removed in our hourly change log for Wisconsin Rapids. Latest change logged Sep 1, 2026.
What’s watching Wisconsin Rapids
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 Wisconsin Rapids — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Wisconsin Rapids (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Wisconsin Rapids
What you can do in Wisconsin Rapids
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 Wisconsin Rapids
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).