Atlas · State

Wisconsin

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

Are automated license plate readers used in Wisconsin?

Yes. Volunteers have recorded 2,153 automated license plate reader camera locations in Wisconsin, across 65 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

2,153 Camera coordinates 1.8% of the 118,623 we hold nationally. Community-reported, not field-verified by us.
65 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

2,153 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 Wisconsin. 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 1,803 83.7%
Unspecified 221 10.3%
Motorola Solutions 42 2.0%
Leonardo/Elsag 29 1.3%
Genetec 23 1.1%
Axon 18 0.8%
Neology 14 0.7%
Axis Communications 3 0.1%

Where in Wisconsin

2,044 mapped cameras assigned to the county containing them. The 53 remaining counties with at least one mapped camera are in the open data.

  • Milwaukee 288
  • Waukesha 158
  • Brown 109
  • Dane 101
  • Racine 88
  • Outagamie 86
  • Winnebago 82
  • Walworth 78
  • Rock 55
  • La Crosse 54
  • Sauk 53
  • Ozaukee 52

What governments here have decided

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

Jurisdiction Decision Date Vendor Sourcing
Appleton Ended Jul 15, 2026 Flock Safety Official agency

Signal

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

What we don’t know about Wisconsin

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

Places in Wisconsin

The largest 40 of 123 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.