Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lake Station, Indiana
Volunteers have reported 23 automated license plate readers in and around Lake Station — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 23 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Lake Station, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 9 of them sit inside Lake Station itself.
The rest sit in Portage (7), Gary (6), Hobart (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 13 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 13 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Lake Station
The readers mapped around Lake Station break down as 17 Flock Safety, 4 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Ripley Street — 3 readers
- Central Avenue — 2 readers
- 37th Avenue — 2 readers
- Melton Road — 2 readers
- US 20 — 2 readers
- Borman Expressway — 2 readers
- East 21st Place — 1 reader
- East 26th Avenue — 1 reader
- I 94 — 1 reader
- North Hobart Road — 1 reader
- Clay Street — 1 reader
- Stone Avenue — 1 reader
+ 2 more streets and roads mapped around Lake Station — all on the live map above.
Lake Station IN PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Lake Station IN PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 9 other agencies.
Lake Station 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 16 traffic.
What’s watching Lake Station
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 Lake Station — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Lake Station (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Lake Station
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Lake Station, IN
- Controversial license plate cams credited with helping solve Lake Station robbery
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Lake Station, IN
What you can do in Lake Station
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 Lake Station
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).