Flock & ALPR Cameras in Burns Harbor, Indiana
Volunteers have reported 9 automated license plate readers in and around Burns Harbor — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 9 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Burns Harbor, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 7 of them sit inside Burns Harbor itself.
The rest sit in Chesterton (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Burns Harbor in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 13:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Burns Harbor
The readers mapped around Burns Harbor break down as 8 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- US 20 — 3 readers
- West 1050 North — 2 readers
- Rak Road — 1 reader
- Max Mochal Highway — 1 reader
- McCool Road — 1 reader
- I 94 — 1 reader
Burns Harbor IN PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Burns Harbor IN PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 7 other agencies.
Burns Harbor in the Porter County picture
Porter County has 98 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #421 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 19.7% nationally. That’s across 174,150 residents and 1,353 road miles. By road density that is 0.07 cameras per road mile, in the top 7.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 7 traffic.
Camera activity around Burns Harbor, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Burns Harbor. Latest change logged Sep 6, 2026.
What’s watching Burns Harbor
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 Burns Harbor — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Burns Harbor (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Burns Harbor
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 Burns Harbor
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).