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As of 13 October 2026, 2,025 Flock and ALPR cameras are mapped inside Kansas's borders (1,261 tagged Flock Safety), run by 180 operators. Around Kansas City the map records 1,464, the most of any KS metro. See every camera on the live map below, which way it faces and its approximate capture zone. Free, no account.
The 2,025 cameras mapped in Kansas belong to 180 operators, with Wichita Police Department at the top on 321. That makes the state widely spread by ALPR standards. Because these are counted inside the border rather than by metro box, the number is directly comparable with other states on this site. 334 of the 2,025 cameras carry no operator at all, so the operator shares above are shares of the attributed cameras. Since 5 October 2026 the in-state count moved from 2,062 to 2,025 (-37).
Open the live camera mapCamera counts for Kansas's main metro areas, read from public map data on 13 October 2026.
Kansas City
1,464 cameras
Overland Park
1,381 cameras
525 cameras
Topeka
169 cameras
Lawrence
135 cameras
Wichita has a full page with operator, vendor and direction breakdowns; the other metros are covered by the live map. Metro rows come from a box around each city centre; they overlap where cities adjoin and can include cameras just over a state line. Use them to compare cities, and use the in-state total above for the state.
Eight operators account for 43% of Kansas's mapped cameras.
Wichita Police Department
321 cameras
Kansas City Police Department
141 cameras
Topeka Police Department
116 cameras
Johnson County Sheriff's Office
73 cameras
Overland Park Police Department
66 cameras
Shawnee Police Department
65 cameras
Prairie Village Police Department
60 cameras
Lawrence Police Department
35 cameras
There is a clear leader — Wichita Police Department, 321 cameras — and then a long, flat tail of 179 other operators. The tail is overwhelmingly small municipal departments.
Names are drawn from OpenStreetMap tags, falling back to the jurisdiction the camera sits in (1,625 of 2,025 here). A camera's operator is not always the body that paid for it.
The vendor mix behind the state's plate readers.
Flock Safety
1,261 cameras
Genetec
425 cameras
Leonardo
165 cameras
Axis Communications
45 cameras
Motorola Solutions
41 cameras
Vendor tags exist for 1,956 of Kansas's cameras, and Flock Safety takes 64% of those — but Genetec runs 425, which is why the map reads 'ALPR', not just 'Flock'.
Mounts recorded for Kansas: pole (543), street lamp (32), post (5), trailer (3). Bearing coverage is 94% — 1,901 cameras have a facing direction on the map, and those are the ones the avoidance layer can actually work with.
The Atlas of Surveillance records 52 ALPR programs in Kansas. Some of the largest are below; the map above shows where the cameras physically are, which the records alone can't.
The Topeka Police Department obtained five automated license plate readers in 2017. The ALPRs were mounted to patrol cars.
The University of Kansas began using automated license plate readers for parking enforcement in 2015.
As of April 2024, the Wichita Police Department operates 167 Flock Safety automated license plate readers. The agency stores ALPR data for 30 days. Vendor: Flock Safety.
The Jackson County Sheriff's Office purchased 12 automated license plate readers in 2009. Vendor: ELSAG.
The Great Bend Police Department received a $132,000 grant to purchase automated license plate readers in 2023.
The Bonner Springs Police Department has been used automated license plate readers since at least 2021. Vendor: ELSAG.
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Atlas of Surveillance. Summaries are the Atlas's own wording, trimmed to a complete sentence.
As of 13 October 2026, 2,025 Flock and ALPR cameras are mapped inside Kansas's borders, 1,261 of them tagged Flock Safety, run by 180 operators. The largest clusters are around Kansas City, Overland Park, Wichita. That is a documented floor, not a full inventory: cameras appear as people map them.
The largest clusters are around Kansas City (1,464), Overland Park (1,381), Wichita (525), Topeka (169), Lawrence (135). Smaller KS towns appear on the live map too — these are simply the biggest metro areas.
The lead operator is Wichita Police Department at 321 cameras, but it holds only 16% of the state; the rest is split among 179 other agencies and businesses.
No. Flock Safety is tagged on 1,261 of 1,956 vendor-recorded cameras (64%); Genetec accounts for 425, and 68 cameras have no vendor recorded at all. 'Flock camera' is the common name, but the map covers every ALPR it can find.
Yes, within limits. BanditKin routes around cameras whose facing direction is known — 1,901 of Kansas's 2,025 — with a slider for how hard to try, and it tells you honestly when no camera-free route exists. It is off by default and never sends your identity or location.