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Cameras in Kansas City, MO
528 mapped plate readers and a speed and red light camera program in Kansas City.
Plate readers © OpenStreetMap contributors · © OpenMapTiles
Kansas City, by camera type.
Kansas City: 528 plate readers mapped. Nearby: Independence 61, Lee's Summit 72, Blue Springs 71 and Belton 25.
Speed cameras in Kansas City
Kansas City runs a speed and red light camera program (approved, as of Sep 2024), not yet on this map.
- Speed and red light cameras · Approved (as of Sep 2024) Kansas City Council ↗ · current status not dated
The law, in short:
Local ordinance.
Red light cameras in Kansas City
The same program covers red light cameras, not yet on this map.
License plate readers in Kansas City
528 plate readers are on the map in Kansas City, and 113 of them carry the Flock Safety tag. Most don't say who runs them.
First-mapped dates here run from Dec 14, 2024 to Nov 2, 2026. 412 of the 528 were first mapped in 2026, with 159 in June alone.
The EFF's Atlas of Surveillance lists Kansas City Police Department as an agency that uses plate readers.
Who can search plate reads in Kansas City
EyesOnFlock lists no transparency portal for the Kansas City Police Department (Oct 14, 2026). It posts no sharing list, so who can search reads from its cameras is not stated. The sharing lists of 208 agencies name it, so it can search their reads.
Kansas City Police Department
- Agencies on its posted sharing list
- Not stated
- Keeps each read for
- Not stated
- Agencies whose reads it can search
- 208
No transparency portal listed, Oct 14, 2026 · See its sharing lists, as of Oct 14, 2026
Get one summary email a month on new plate readers in Kansas City
Portal figures and sharing lists: EyesOnFlock (CC BY-SA 4.0), from Flock Safety transparency portals.
Traffic cameras in Kansas City
No traffic camera feed is listed for Kansas City yet.
Camera tickets in Kansas City
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Know when cameras in Kansas City change.
Free email alerts for cameras on your routes that start issuing tickets. One summary email a month.
- In your monthly summary: the day a camera near you starts issuing tickets
- New cameras mapped or reported near you
- What plate readers keep, and who runs them
- Your street, your distance, the camera types you pick
156,883 cameras listed or mapped so far.
Sources and updates
How this page was made: CamsAhead writes each page type once, then fills it with this place's data from the sources below.
- Kansas City Council: speed and red light camera program, approved, as of Sep 2024
- OpenStreetMap contributors: plate readers, data as of Nov 7, 2026; ODbL 1.0
- EFF Atlas of Surveillance: agencies that use plate readers, data as of Aug 2026; CC BY 4.0
- US Census Bureau: city boundary (cartographic file 2025)
Plate reader points are mapped by OpenStreetMap volunteers (data as of November 7, 2026).
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