Atlas · State

Nebraska

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

Are automated license plate readers used in Nebraska?

Yes. Volunteers have recorded 573 automated license plate reader camera locations in Nebraska, across 57 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

573 Camera coordinates 0.5% of the 118,623 we hold nationally. Community-reported, not field-verified by us.
57 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 1 ended, declined, or suspended · 0 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

573 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 Nebraska. 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 373 65.1%
Motorola Solutions 77 13.4%
Avigilon 48 8.4%
Hanwha Vision 31 5.4%
Axis Communications 17 3.0%
Unspecified 15 2.6%
Axon 9 1.6%
Rekor 2 0.3%
Leonardo/Elsag 1 0.2%

Where in Nebraska

501 mapped cameras assigned to the county containing them. The 45 remaining counties with at least one mapped camera are in the open data.

  • Lancaster 83
  • Sarpy 61
  • Lincoln 41
  • Buffalo 36
  • Dawson 32
  • Dakota 21
  • Hall 18
  • Scotts Bluff 16
  • Cass 14
  • Dodge 11
  • Otoe 11
  • Adams 11

What governments here have decided

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

Jurisdiction Decision Date Vendor Sourcing
Ord Ended Aug 3, 2026 Flock Safety Reported

Signal

No Signal story yet names Nebraska. 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 Nebraska specifically. They govern the cameras in it.

What we don’t know about Nebraska

We hold no researched record for Nebraska 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 Nebraska jurisdiction. There are far more than that. A single records request from a resident often establishes more than weeks of desk research.

Places in Nebraska

The largest 31 of 31 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.