Flock & ALPR Cameras in South Bend, Indiana
Volunteers have reported 57 automated license plate readers in and around South Bend — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 57 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of South Bend, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 54 of them sit inside South Bend itself.
The rest sit in Mishawaka (2).
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 18 License plate reader newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
📷 17 new license plate readers just reported around South Bend, IN. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #SouthBend
Where the cameras are in South Bend
The readers mapped around South Bend break down as 55 Flock Safety, 1 Genetec. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- West Western Avenue — 9 readers
- Lincolnway West — 4 readers
- East LaSalle Avenue — 3 readers
- Lincoln Way West — 3 readers
- West Huron Street — 3 readers
- West Sample Street — 2 readers
- South Michigan Street — 2 readers
- East Indiana Avenue — 2 readers
- South Brookfield Street — 2 readers
- Phillipa Street — 2 readers
- South Eddy Street — 1 reader
- Lathrop Street — 1 reader
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around South Bend — all on the live map above.
South Bend IN PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, South Bend IN PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 88 other agencies.
South Bend 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 52 traffic.
Camera activity around South Bend, last 30 days
6 newly reported, 5 removed in our hourly change log for South Bend. Latest change logged Sep 3, 2026.
What’s watching South Bend
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 South Bend — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to South Bend (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around South Bend
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near South Bend, IN
- 2 new license plate readers reported around South Bend, IN
- South Bend mayor James Mueller talks flock cameras, Amtrak, Notre Dame football season
- 17 new license plate readers reported around South Bend, IN
What you can do in South Bend
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 South Bend
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).