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Indiana · Local Surveillance Report

Flock & ALPR Cameras in Ferdinand, Indiana

Volunteers have reported 6 automated license plate readers in and around Ferdinand — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 6 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Ferdinand, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 3 of them sit inside Ferdinand itself.

The rest sit in Santa Claus (1).

2 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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6
Reported cameras nearby
#147
of 308 Indiana cities tracked
0.2%
of Indiana’s reported cameras
Live camera map 6 reported cameras around Ferdinand, Indiana
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Ferdinand

No new reports near Ferdinand in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:27 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Ferdinand

The readers mapped around Ferdinand break down as 6 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.

  • Main Street — 4 readers
  • SR 162 — 1 reader
  • SR 62 — 1 reader

Ferdinand IN PD and the sharing network

Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Ferdinand IN PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 12 other agencies.

Ferdinand in the Dubois County picture

Dubois County has 28 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #327 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 15.3% nationally. That’s across 43,563 residents and 1,109 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 24.5% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 4 traffic.

What’s watching Ferdinand

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 Ferdinand — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Ferdinand (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

What you can do in Ferdinand

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.

Cameras near Ferdinand

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).