Flock & ALPR Cameras in Valparaiso, Indiana
Volunteers have reported 28 automated license plate readers in and around Valparaiso — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Valparaiso in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:27 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Valparaiso
The readers mapped around Valparaiso break down as 25 Flock Safety, 2 of unrecorded make, 1 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Porter County Sheriffs Office, Valparasio Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Laporte Avenue — 6 readers
- US 30 — 3 readers
- SR 49 — 3 readers
- West Lincolnway — 3 readers
- Vale Park Road — 2 readers
- Calumet Avenue — 2 readers
- Evans Avenue — 2 readers
- East Morthland Drive — 1 reader
- SR 2;SR 49 — 1 reader
- SR 2 — 1 reader
- Campbell Street — 1 reader
- Ransom Road — 1 reader
+ 2 more streets and roads mapped around Valparaiso — all on the live map above.
Valparaiso IN PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Valparaiso IN PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 81 other agencies.
Valparaiso 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 20 traffic, 1 town. Operators named on the record: Porter County Sheriffs Office (2), Valparasio Police Department (1).
Camera activity around Valparaiso, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Valparaiso. Latest change logged Aug 13, 2026.
What’s watching Valparaiso
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 Valparaiso — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Valparaiso (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Valparaiso
- On the agenda: Valparaiso meeting — License Plate Reader (Sep 11)
- On the agenda: Valparaiso meeting — Flock Safety (Mar 27)
- On the agenda: Valparaiso meeting — Flock Safety (Feb 13)
What you can do in Valparaiso
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 Valparaiso
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).