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What is documented about automated license plate surveillance in Iowa — and what is still an open question.
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That is a gap in our coverage, not a finding about your town. The map below is centred where you searched, and shows any camera coordinates volunteers have recorded there — which is a different question from what your government operates.
The fastest way to change that is a surveillance inventory request: it asks your government to list the technology it runs, in its own words. It is one email, any resident can send it, and the answer is what turns a blank space on this map into a record.
Yes. Volunteers have recorded 793 automated license plate reader camera locations in Iowa, across 42 counties. That is a floor, not an inventory — it counts what someone has mapped, not what exists.
Known ALPR locations
Coverage incomplete
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793 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 Iowa. Open the national Atlas to compare with neighbouring states.
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 | 741 | 93.4% |
| Unspecified | 20 | 2.5% |
| Axis Communications | 19 | 2.4% |
| Genetec | 5 | 0.6% |
| Avigilon | 4 | 0.5% |
| Neology | 3 | 0.4% |
| Motorola Solutions | 1 | 0.1% |
869 mapped cameras assigned to the county containing them. The 30 remaining counties with at least one mapped camera are in the open data.
Every decision we hold for Iowa, most recent first. The Decision Record exists because deployment databases record arrivals and not reversals.
| Jurisdiction | Decision | Date | Vendor | Sourcing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coralville | Ended | Feb 24, 2026 | Flock Safety | Reported |
No Signal story yet names Iowa. That is a gap in our coverage rather than a quiet state — send us what you are seeing.
These are not about Iowa specifically. They govern the cameras in it.
More than 400 events in nearly every state, organised by DeFlock. Council meetings, records requests, information sessions. The organisers say plainly what it is not.
Get the Flock Out coordinates state affiliates, model legislation, and litigation. It also publishes figures — and one of them is testable against our own map.
The largest ALPR vendor in American policing announced real, substantial limits on its own product. It also left the one question this campaign is about exactly where it was.
We hold no researched record for Iowa deep enough to have produced open questions yet. That is the largest gap on this page.
We hold records for 1 Iowa jurisdiction. There are far more than that. A single records request from a resident often establishes more than weeks of desk research.
The largest 40 of 85 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.