Flock & ALPR Cameras in Plainfield, Indiana
Volunteers have reported 53 automated license plate readers in and around Plainfield — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 53 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Plainfield, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 25 of them sit inside Plainfield itself.
The rest sit in Indianapolis (28).
5 of them name an operator in the record: Plainfield Police Department (3), Indiana Dept. of Corrections (2). 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 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 Plainfield
The readers mapped around Plainfield break down as 50 Flock Safety, 2 Flock. Named operators in the reports: Plainfield Police Department, Indiana Dept. of Corrections. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Decatur Boulevard — 6 readers
- Quaker Boulevard — 3 readers
- Old National Road — 2 readers
- North Access Road — 2 readers
- Vestal Drive — 2 readers
- Bridgeport Road — 2 readers
- Colonel H. Weir Cook Memorial Drive — 2 readers
- Authorized Vehicles Only entrance — 2 readers
- Economy Parking entrance — 2 readers
- West Hanna Avenue — 2 readers
- Ameriplex Parkway — 2 readers
- West Washington Street — 2 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Plainfield — all on the live map above.
Plainfield IN PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Plainfield IN PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 81 other agencies.
Plainfield in the Hendricks County picture
Hendricks County has 96 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #457 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 21.3% nationally. That’s across 179,379 residents and 1,226 road miles. By road density that is 0.08 cameras per road mile, in the top 6.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 41 traffic. Operators named on the record: Plainfield Police Department (3), Indiana Dept. of Corrections (2).
Camera activity around Plainfield, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Plainfield. Latest change logged Aug 17, 2026.
What’s watching Plainfield
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 Plainfield — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Plainfield (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Plainfield
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 Plainfield
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).