Flock & ALPR Cameras in Carmel, Indiana
Volunteers have reported 84 automated license plate readers in and around Carmel — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 84 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Carmel, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 74 of them sit inside Carmel itself.
The rest sit in Westfield (7), Noblesville (1).
3 of them name an operator in the record: Carmel Police Department (2), Flock Safety (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
2 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 3 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Carmel
The readers mapped around Carmel break down as 80 Flock Safety, 2 of unrecorded make, 1 Axis Communications. Named operators in the reports: Carmel Police Department, Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2023; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Carmel — 13 readers
- Keystone Parkway — 8 readers
- North Meridian Street — 4 readers
- East 116th Street — 3 readers
- Lowes Way — 3 readers
- Central Park Drive West — 3 readers
- Clay Terrace Boulevard — 3 readers
- Ditch Road — 3 readers
- Lexington Boulevard — 3 readers
- Carey Road — 2 readers
- Hazel Dell Parkway — 2 readers
- West Main Street — 2 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Carmel — all on the live map above.
Carmel IN PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Carmel IN PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 116 other agencies.
Carmel in the Hamilton County picture
Hamilton County has 219 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #362 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 16.9% nationally. That’s across 357,176 residents and 1,925 road miles. By road density that is 0.11 cameras per road mile, in the top 3.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 74 traffic, 2 street. Operators named on the record: Carmel Police Department (2), Flock Safety (1).
What’s watching Carmel
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 Carmel — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Carmel (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Carmel
- In the minutes: Carmel Common Council Meeting, Flock Camera (Oct 5)
- In the minutes: Carmel Common Council Meeting, Flock camera (Sep 21)
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Carmel, IN
What you can do in Carmel
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 Carmel
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).