Flock & ALPR Cameras in Fort Wayne, Indiana
Volunteers have reported 90 automated license plate readers in and around Fort Wayne — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Contract Rejected
Fort Wayne is on the record here. Fort Wayne City Council rejected funding for a Flock camera contract.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 90 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Fort Wayne, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 84 of them sit inside Fort Wayne itself.
The rest sit in Arcola (1).
6 of them name an operator in the record: Fort Wayne Police Department (5), The Home Depot (1). 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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- Oct 2 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Fort Wayne
The readers mapped around Fort Wayne break down as 81 Flock Safety, 6 of unrecorded make, 2 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Fort Wayne Police Department, The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- North Coliseum Boulevard — 4 readers
- Getz Road — 3 readers
- West Jefferson Boulevard — 3 readers
- St. Marys Pathway — 3 readers
- I 69;US 24;US 33 — 3 readers
- North Clinton Street — 3 readers
- East State Boulevard — 3 readers
- Maumee Pathway — 3 readers
- Ring Road South — 3 readers
- US 30 — 2 readers
- Illinois Road Trail — 2 readers
- Illinois Road — 2 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Fort Wayne — all on the live map above.
Fort Wayne IN PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Fort Wayne IN PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 108 other agencies.
Fort Wayne in the Allen County picture
Allen County has 115 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,031 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 388,791 residents and 1,932 road miles. By road density that is 0.06 cameras per road mile, in the top 10.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 64 traffic, 4 parking, 2 entrance. Operators named on the record: Fort Wayne Police Department (5), The Home Depot (1).
Camera activity around Fort Wayne, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Fort Wayne. Latest change logged Aug 28, 2026.
What’s watching Fort Wayne
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 Fort Wayne — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Fort Wayne (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Fort Wayne
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What you can do in Fort Wayne
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 Fort Wayne
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).