Flock & ALPR Cameras in Merrillville, Indiana
Volunteers have reported 29 automated license plate readers in and around Merrillville — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 29 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Merrillville, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 16 of them sit inside Merrillville itself.
The rest sit in Hobart (8), Gary (4), Crown Point (1).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Crown Point, IN Police (1), Lake County Sheriffs Office (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 25 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Merrillville
The readers mapped around Merrillville break down as 15 Motorola Solutions, 12 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Lake County Sheriffs Office, Crown Point, IN Police. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Mississippi Street — 4 readers
- West 81st Avenue — 3 readers
- West 57th Avenue — 3 readers
- East 81st Avenue — 2 readers
- East 61st Avenue — 2 readers
- Mall Entrance 5 — 2 readers
- West 49th Avenue — 2 readers
- Broadway — 1 reader
- East 93rd Avenue — 1 reader
- East 79th Avenue — 1 reader
- East 49th Avenue — 1 reader
- Harrison Street — 1 reader
+ 5 more streets and roads mapped around Merrillville — all on the live map above.
Merrillville 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 25 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lake County Sheriffs Office (1), Crown Point, IN Police (1).
Camera activity around Merrillville, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Merrillville. Latest change logged Aug 25, 2026.
What’s watching Merrillville
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 Merrillville — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Merrillville (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Merrillville
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Merrillville, IN
- Merrillville police rescued baby after license plate reader detects car – NBC Chicago
What you can do in Merrillville
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 Merrillville
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).