Flock & ALPR Cameras in Bluffton, Indiana
Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around Bluffton — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 17 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Bluffton
The readers mapped around Bluffton break down as 8 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Bluffton Police Department, Lowe's, Adams County Sheriff's Office, Wells County Sheriff's Office. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Apr 2025.
- East Division Road — 2 readers
- North Main Street — 2 readers
- South Main Street — 1 reader
- Monroe Street — 1 reader
- West 000 Road — 1 reader
- West Wabash Street — 1 reader
Bluffton IN PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Bluffton IN PD runs 4 cameras of its own, has logged 38 plate-database searches, has captured 57,958 vehicle records. Its network connects to 19 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Bluffton in the Wells County picture
Wells County has 13 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #607 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 28,261 residents and 799 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 33.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 8 traffic. Operators named on the record: Bluffton Police Department (4), Lowe's (2), Adams County Sheriff's Office (1).
What’s watching Bluffton
These aren’t red-light cameras. Automated license plate readers like Flock Safety’s photograph every plate that passes, log the time and place, and store it in a searchable database that’s often shared far beyond Bluffton — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Bluffton (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Bluffton
Ask who approved these cameras, how long plate data is kept, and who it’s shared with. File a public records request, raise it at a council meeting, and see the full playbook on Take Action. Fighting this locally? Join or start a chapter and we’ll amplify you.
Not sure what one looks like? See photographs of installed cameras before you go looking.
Cameras near Bluffton
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).