Flock & ALPR Cameras in Hammond, Indiana
Volunteers have reported 11 automated license plate readers in and around Hammond — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 12 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Hammond, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 9 of them sit inside Hammond itself.
The rest sit in East Chicago (3).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 10 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
- Sep 10 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
- Sep 10 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Hammond
The readers mapped around Hammond break down as 9 Motorola Solutions, 3 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2026; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Indianapolis Boulevard — 4 readers
- Michigan Street — 3 readers
- 169th Street — 2 readers
- Borman Expressway — 1 reader
- 177th Street — 1 reader
- Highland Street — 1 reader
Hammond 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 7 traffic.
Camera activity around Hammond, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Hammond. Latest change logged Sep 10, 2026.
What’s watching Hammond
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 Hammond — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Hammond (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Hammond
- Indiana man charged after leading high-speed chase from Hammond to South Shore
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Hammond, IN
- ShotSpotter gunshot detection system to be installed in Hammond, Indiana – NBC Chicago
What you can do in Hammond
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 Hammond
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).