Flock & ALPR Cameras in Decatur, Indiana
Volunteers have reported 10 automated license plate readers in and around Decatur — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 10 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Decatur, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 3 of them sit inside Decatur itself.
The rest sit in Monroe (1), Preble (1).
9 of them name an operator in the record: Adams County Sheriff's Office (9). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
5 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Decatur in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 08:56 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Decatur
The readers mapped around Decatur break down as 10 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Adams County Sheriff's Office. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- US 27;US 33 — 3 readers
- North Piqua Road — 1 reader
- US 33 — 1 reader
- South 13th Street — 1 reader
- West 600 N — 1 reader
- East 650 N — 1 reader
- East 550 North — 1 reader
- SR 124 — 1 reader
Decatur IN PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Decatur IN PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 117 other agencies.
Decatur in the Adams County picture
Adams County has 16 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #629 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 35,995 residents and 796 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 28.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 9 traffic. Operators named on the record: Adams County Sheriff's Office (9).
What’s watching Decatur
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 Decatur — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Decatur (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Decatur
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 Decatur
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).