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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Mishawaka, Indiana

Volunteers have reported 16 automated license plate readers in and around Mishawaka — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 16 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Mishawaka, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 8 of them sit inside Mishawaka itself.

The rest sit in South Bend (4).

4 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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16
Reported cameras nearby
#57
of 308 Indiana cities tracked
0.4%
of Indiana’s reported cameras
Live camera map 16 reported cameras around Mishawaka, Indiana
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Mishawaka

No new reports near Mishawaka in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 19:25 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Mishawaka

The readers mapped around Mishawaka break down as 15 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.

  • Chandler Boulevard — 3 readers
  • East Mishawaka Avenue — 2 readers
  • Fulmer Road — 1 reader
  • Jefferson Boulevard — 1 reader
  • Mishawaka Avenue — 1 reader
  • West Mishawaka Avenue — 1 reader
  • West McKinley Avenue — 1 reader
  • McKinley Avenue — 1 reader
  • McKinley Highway — 1 reader
  • South 36th Street — 1 reader
  • East 12th Street — 1 reader
  • West Broadway Street — 1 reader

+ 1 more streets and roads mapped around Mishawaka — all on the live map above.

Mishawaka PD IN and the sharing network

Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Mishawaka PD IN appears in the sharing network with connections to 8 other agencies.

Mishawaka in the St. Joseph County picture

St. Joseph County has 110 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #716 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 272,574 residents and 1,650 road miles. By road density that is 0.07 cameras per road mile, in the top 8.9% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 15 traffic, 1 bridge.

Camera activity around Mishawaka, last 30 days

3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Mishawaka. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.

What’s watching Mishawaka

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 Mishawaka — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Mishawaka (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

What you can do in Mishawaka

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.

Cameras near Mishawaka

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).