Flock & ALPR Cameras in Shorewood Forest, Indiana
Volunteers have reported 12 automated license plate readers in and around Shorewood Forest — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 12 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Shorewood Forest, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Shorewood Forest itself.
The rest sit in Merrillville (5).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Porter County Sheriffs Office (2). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
7 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Shorewood Forest in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Shorewood Forest
The readers mapped around Shorewood Forest break down as 12 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Porter County Sheriffs Office. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- US Route 30 — 5 readers
- Tower Road — 2 readers
- State Road 130 — 2 readers
- North 475 West — 1 reader
- Dorchester — 1 reader
- Roxbury Road — 1 reader
Shorewood Forest in the Porter County picture
Porter County has 98 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #421 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 19.7% nationally. That’s across 174,150 residents and 1,353 road miles. By road density that is 0.07 cameras per road mile, in the top 7.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 11 traffic. Operators named on the record: Porter County Sheriffs Office (2).
Camera activity around Shorewood Forest, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Shorewood Forest. Latest change logged Sep 1, 2026.
What’s watching Shorewood Forest
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 Shorewood Forest — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Shorewood Forest (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Shorewood Forest
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 Shorewood Forest
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).