Flock & ALPR Cameras in New Chicago, Indiana
Volunteers have reported 11 automated license plate readers in and around New Chicago — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 11 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of New Chicago, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside New Chicago itself.
The rest sit in Hobart (4), Gary (3), Lake Station (3).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Lake County Indiana Sheriff (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 24 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in New Chicago
The readers mapped around New Chicago break down as 5 Flock Safety, 5 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Lake County Indiana Sheriff. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- East 37th Avenue — 2 readers
- Georgia Street — 2 readers
- Central Avenue — 1 reader
- Ridge Road — 1 reader
- Clay Street — 1 reader
- Tyler Avenue — 1 reader
- Montgomery Street — 1 reader
- West 49th Avenue — 1 reader
New Chicago IN PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, New Chicago IN PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 13 other agencies.
New Chicago 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 8 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lake County Indiana Sheriff (1).
Camera activity around New Chicago, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for New Chicago. Latest change logged Aug 20, 2026.
What’s watching New Chicago
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 New Chicago — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to New Chicago (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around New Chicago
- 2 new license plate readers reported around New Chicago, IN
- 2 new license plate readers reported around East Chicago, IN
What you can do in New Chicago
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 New Chicago
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).