Flock & ALPR Cameras in Cedar Lake, Indiana
Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around Cedar Lake — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 8 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Cedar Lake, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 5 of them sit inside Cedar Lake itself.
The rest sit in Crown Point (1), Hanover Township (1), West Creek Township (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Lake County Indiana Sheriff (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 24 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Cedar Lake
The readers mapped around Cedar Lake break down as 4 Flock Safety, 3 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Lake County Indiana Sheriff. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- West 133rd Avenue — 3 readers
- 151st Avenue — 1 reader
- West 141st Avenue — 1 reader
- West 119th Avenue — 1 reader
- Cline Avenue — 1 reader
Cedar Lake IN PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Cedar Lake IN PD runs 4 cameras of its own, has captured 77,093 vehicle records. Its network connects to 12 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Cedar Lake in the Lake County picture
Lake County has 190 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #782 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 498,990 residents and 2,337 road miles. By road density that is 0.08 cameras per road mile, in the top 6.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 7 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lake County Indiana Sheriff (1).
What’s watching Cedar Lake
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 Cedar Lake — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Cedar Lake (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Cedar Lake
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 Cedar Lake
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).