Flock & ALPR Cameras in East Chicago, Indiana
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around East Chicago — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 5 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of East Chicago, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 2 of them sit inside East Chicago itself.
The rest sit in Gary (2), Hammond (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 5 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
- Sep 25 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in East Chicago
The readers mapped around East Chicago break down as 3 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in May 2026; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Aldis Street — 2 readers
- Michigan Street — 1 reader
East Chicago 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 3 traffic.
Camera activity around East Chicago, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for East Chicago. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.
What’s watching East Chicago
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 East Chicago — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to East Chicago (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around East Chicago
- 2 new license plate readers reported around East Chicago, IN
- On the agenda: East Chicago meeting — ShotSpotter (Feb 12)
- East Chicago shooting leaves 1 dead, 2 injured in Northwest Indiana
What you can do in East Chicago
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 East Chicago
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).