Flock & ALPR Cameras in Gary, Indiana
Volunteers have reported 39 automated license plate readers in and around Gary — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 39 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Gary, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 37 of them sit inside Gary itself.
The rest sit in Calumet Township (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 5 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 13 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 13 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 11 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Gary
The readers mapped around Gary break down as 28 Flock Safety, 8 Motorola Solutions, 1 Genetec. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2026; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Richard G. Hatcher Boulevard — 5 readers
- West Ridge Road — 4 readers
- West 25th Avenue — 4 readers
- Clark Road — 3 readers
- East 5th Avenue — 2 readers
- East Ridge Road — 2 readers
- Broadway — 2 readers
- West 5th Avenue — 2 readers
- Harrison Street — 2 readers
- West 19th Avenue — 2 readers
- West 15th Avenue — 2 readers
- West 4th Avenue — 1 reader
+ 6 more streets and roads mapped around Gary — all on the live map above.
Gary IN PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Gary IN PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 89 other agencies.
Gary 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 32 traffic.
Camera activity around Gary, last 30 days
9 newly reported in our hourly change log for Gary. Latest change logged Sep 11, 2026.
What’s watching Gary
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 Gary — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Gary (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Gary
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What you can do in Gary
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 Gary
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).