Atlas · State

Kansas

What is documented about automated license plate surveillance in Kansas — and what is still an open question.

Are automated license plate readers used in Kansas?

Yes. Volunteers have recorded 1,965 automated license plate reader camera locations in Kansas, across 85 counties. That is a floor, not an inventory — it counts what someone has mapped, not what exists.

Camera data retrieved Aug 15, 2026 · Most recent record Aug 11, 2026

1,965 Camera coordinates 1.7% of the 118,623 we hold nationally. Community-reported, not field-verified by us.
85 Counties with a mapped camera Assigned geometrically from Census county boundaries. A county with no entry has no mapped camera, which is not the same as none.
1 Documented decisions 0 ended, declined, or suspended · 1 adopted, renewed, or expanded.
0 Full dossiers Places researched down to retention, sharing, warrant standard, and audit policy — including the fields that come back unknown.

Known ALPR locations

Coverage incomplete

  • Camera coordinate
  • Jurisdiction record — no camera coordinates held
  • Program ended, declined, or prohibited

1,965 mapped camera coordinates · 42 jurisdiction records · 50 of 50 states have data. Camera coordinates © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Boundaries and roads: US Census, public domain. Roads are drawn for orientation only — a camera near a road is not a claim about which road it watches.

Pinned to Kansas. Open the national Atlas to compare with neighbouring states.

Who supplies the cameras

Vendor attribution as recorded by OpenStreetMap contributors. Where a contributor did not identify the vendor the record reads “Unspecified” — that is an unrecorded fact, not a vendorless camera.

Vendor Mapped cameras Share
Flock Safety 1,268 64.5%
Genetec 413 21.0%
Leonardo/Elsag 157 8.0%
Unspecified 61 3.1%
Motorola Solutions 40 2.0%
Axis Communications 14 0.7%
Axon 6 0.3%
LiveView Technologies 3 0.2%
Rekor 2 0.1%
Neology 1 0.1%

Where in Kansas

1,927 mapped cameras assigned to the county containing them. The 73 remaining counties with at least one mapped camera are in the open data.

  • Sedgwick 470
  • Johnson 460
  • Wyandotte 166
  • Shawnee 145
  • Douglas 57
  • Butler 51
  • Crawford 47
  • Saline 43
  • Leavenworth 31
  • Geary 28
  • Barton 25
  • Reno 22

What governments here have decided

Every decision we hold for Kansas, most recent first. The Decision Record exists because deployment databases record arrivals and not reversals.

Jurisdiction Decision Date Vendor Sourcing
Wichita Expanded Oct 15, 2024 Flock Safety Reported

Signal

No Signal story yet names Kansas. That is a gap in our coverage rather than a quiet state — send us what you are seeing.

National developments that apply here

These are not about Kansas specifically. They govern the cameras in it.

What we don’t know about Kansas

We hold no researched record for Kansas deep enough to have produced open questions yet. That is the largest gap on this page.

Help close the gaps.

We hold records for 1 Kansas jurisdiction. There are far more than that. A single records request from a resident often establishes more than weeks of desk research.

Places in Kansas

The largest 40 of 59 places we can put on the map. Selecting one centres the map there. A place appearing here says nothing about whether it has cameras — it is a label, and the camera layer is separate and incomplete.