Flock & ALPR cameras in South Dakota
Public map data records 216 ALPR cameras inside South Dakota's borders as of 3 September 2026, run by 26 different operators. The Sioux Falls area alone accounts for 79 of them. See every camera, which way it faces and its approximate capture zone — free, no account.
The 216 cameras mapped in South Dakota belong to 26 operators, with Sioux Falls Police Department at the top on 37. 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. 92 of the 216 cameras carry no operator at all, so the operator shares above are shares of the attributed cameras.
Open the live camera mapWhich South Dakota cities have Flock cameras?
Camera counts for South Dakota's main metro areas, read from public map data on 3 September 2026.
Sioux Falls
79 cameras
Rapid City
61 cameras
Bounding-box counts around each city centre — good for ranking metros, wrong for summing. The only clean state total is the polygon-counted figure in the headline.
The largest ALPR operators in South Dakota
Eight operators account for 46% of South Dakota's mapped cameras.
Sioux Falls Police Department
37 cameras
Madison Police Department
19 cameras
Brookings Police Department
14 cameras
Rapid City Police Department
10 cameras
Roberts County Sheriff's Office
6 cameras
Minnehaha County Sheriff's Office
5 cameras
Brandon Police Department
4 cameras
Codington County Sheriff's Office
4 cameras
There is a clear leader — Sioux Falls Police Department, 37 cameras — and then a long, flat tail of 25 other operators. Sheriff's offices are prominent: Roberts County Sheriff's Office, Minnehaha County Sheriff's Office both sit in the top eight.
Attribution is inferred from jurisdiction for 121 cameras and recorded directly for the rest. Counts are a floor: cameras appear on the map as people map them.
It isn't all Flock in South Dakota
The vendor mix behind the state's plate readers.
Flock Safety
188 cameras
Motorola Solutions
9 cameras
Axon Enterprise
3 cameras
Verkada
3 cameras
Genetec
2 cameras
Vendor tags exist for 205 of South Dakota's cameras, and Flock Safety takes 92% of those — but Motorola Solutions runs 9, which is why the map reads 'ALPR', not just 'Flock'.
208 of 216 cameras (96%) carry a facing direction; the rest are shown as omnidirectional. Recorded mounts run pole (33), street lamp (11), post (2).
Documented ALPR programs in South Dakota
Public records compiled in the Atlas of Surveillance list 6 South Dakota agencies using ALPR. Our map, built from OpenStreetMap and community reports, records 26 operators. Some agencies are documented but not yet mapped; some cameras are mapped without a records trail.
Madison Police Department — Lake County
As of April 2024, the Madison Police Department operates 25 Flock Safety automated license plate readers. The agency stores ALPR data for 30 days. Vendor: Flock Safety.
Aberdeen Police Department — Brown County
The Aberdeen Police Department has been using automated license plate readers since 2013.
Sioux Falls Police Department — Minnehaha County
The Sioux Falls Police Department spent $168,000 for about two dozen Flock Safety license plate reader cameras and the requisite operating system to use them. Vendor: Flock Safety.
Minnehaha County Sheriff's Office — Minnehaha County
The Minnehaha County Sheriff's Office uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers. Vendor: Flock Safety.
Summerset Police Department — Meade County
The Summerset Police Department uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers. Vendor: Flock Safety.
Codington County Sheriff's Office — Codington County
The Codington County Sheriff's Office was approved to purchase vehicle-mounted and stationary license plate readers in 2026. Vendor: Flock Safety.
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Atlas of Surveillance. Summaries are the Atlas's own wording, trimmed to a complete sentence.
South Dakota ALPR questions
How many Flock cameras are there in South Dakota?
216 mapped cameras inside the state line as of 3 September 2026. That is a true in-state count, not a sum of overlapping city areas — and still a floor, because unmapped cameras don't appear.
Which cities in South Dakota have Flock cameras?
The largest clusters are around Sioux Falls (79), Rapid City (61). Smaller SD towns appear on the live map too — these are simply the biggest metro areas.
Who operates ALPR cameras in South Dakota?
The lead operator is Sioux Falls Police Department at 37 cameras, but it holds only 17% of the state; the rest is split among 25 other agencies and businesses.
Are all the plate readers in South Dakota made by Flock?
No. Flock Safety is tagged on 188 of 205 vendor-recorded cameras (92%); Motorola Solutions accounts for 9, and 11 cameras have no vendor recorded at all. 'Flock camera' is the common name, but the map covers every ALPR it can find.
Can I avoid Flock cameras when driving in South Dakota?
BanditKin's navigation offers opt-in, field-of-view-aware camera avoidance with a strength slider, using the 208 South Dakota cameras that have a recorded facing direction. If no camera-free route exists it says so and falls back to the normal route. Preferring not to be logged by a commercial surveillance network is a privacy preference — the app uses public camera-location data.