Flock & ALPR Cameras in West Lafayette, Indiana
Volunteers have reported 18 automated license plate readers in and around West Lafayette — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 18 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of West Lafayette, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 15 of them sit inside West Lafayette itself.
The rest sit in Lafayette (2).
7 of them name an operator in the record: Launch Apartments (5), West Lafayette Police Department (2). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 26 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 16 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in West Lafayette
The readers mapped around West Lafayette break down as 16 Flock Safety, 2 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- US 52;US 231 — 5 readers
- North River Road — 4 readers
- Sagamore Parkway West — 2 readers
- Hillcrest Road — 1 reader
- Columbia Street — 1 reader
- South Street — 1 reader
- Old US Highway 231 — 1 reader
- Mitch Daniels Boulevard — 1 reader
- West Stadium Avenue — 1 reader
- Quincy Street — 1 reader
West Lafayette IN PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, West Lafayette IN PD runs 4 cameras of its own, has captured 181,754 vehicle records. Its network connects to 88 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
West Lafayette in the Tippecanoe County picture
Tippecanoe County has 56 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,020 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 187,399 residents and 1,168 road miles. By road density that is 0.05 cameras per road mile, in the top 12.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 16 traffic.
Camera activity around West Lafayette, last 30 days
3 newly reported, 6 removed in our hourly change log for West Lafayette. Latest change logged Sep 6, 2026.
What’s watching West Lafayette
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 West Lafayette — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to West Lafayette (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around West Lafayette
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near West Lafayette, IN
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near West Lafayette, IN
- 4 new license plate readers reported around West Lafayette, IN
- In West Lafayette, a ban on facial recognition technology failed, but questions remain about its use in Indiana
What you can do in West Lafayette
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 West Lafayette
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).