Verified ALPR — vendor unconfirmed
Kansas City is watched — we just can't confirm by whom.
Our records document automated license plate reader use in Kansas City, Missouri recorded for Kansas City Police Department, but they do not establish Flock Safety as the vendor. Separately, 506 individual ALPR camera locations mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors fall inside the municipal boundary, 119 of them source-tagged Flock Safety.
Agency
Kansas City Police Department
Agency type
Police
Jurisdiction
Municipal
County
Jackson County
State
Missouri (MO)
Vendor
Vigilant Solutions
The Kansas City Police Department scanned 147,195,687 license plates in 2019 using Vigilant Solutions automated license plate readers.
Sources · record AOS004209
These entries document that an agency has been reported to use ALPR technology. They do not establish camera counts, exact locations, cost, retention periods or sharing policies unless the linked source says so.
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Everything on this page traces back to the records below. Where a record carries no linked document, we say so instead of filling the gap.
Deployment records come from the EFF Atlas of Surveillance ↗. Database last updated 2026-08-07.
506 mapped camera points inside the Kansas City boundary, from OpenStreetMap contributors via the DeFlock ↗ dataset (ODbL). Each point links to its own OpenStreetMap record in the camera list on this page.
Camera points are matched to this municipality by point-in-polygon containment against US Census Bureau cartographic boundaries (2023) — the coordinate falls inside the municipal boundary. Containment is a statement about location only, never about ownership, operation, purchase or deployment.
Other Missouri communities with a record in our database — nearest by county first. Absence from this list is not evidence of absence.
Kirksville approved Flock Safety cameras for major thoroughfares in the city, the Daily Express reported.
Kirksville Daily ExpressJan 18, 2026News reportingFlock Safety
Camera counts, contract prices, retention and sharing policies are shown only where we found a primary source. Where they're missing, the information is not publicly verified — see the Flock Files for the documents we do have.
Data attribution
Portions of the surveillance deployment data on this site come from the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Atlas of Surveillance. atlasofsurveillance.org ↗ Are You Flocked? is independent and is not affiliated with the EFF or Flock Safety. Database last updated 2026-08-07.
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