Flock & ALPR Cameras in Adel, Iowa
Volunteers have reported 1 automated license plate readers in and around Adel — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 1 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Adel, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Adel itself.
The rest sit in Redfield (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 29, 2026 On the agenda: Adel meeting — LPR camera (Sep 29)
Every record for this area on the Docket → · nothing is ever deleted.
No new reports near Adel in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 18:57 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Adel
The readers mapped around Adel break down as 1 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to May 2026.
- 300th Street — 1 reader
Adel in the Dallas County picture
Dallas County has 53 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #496 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 23.2% nationally. That’s across 104,136 residents and 1,235 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 14.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 1 traffic.
What’s watching Adel
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 Adel — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Adel (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Adel
What you can do in Adel
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.
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Cameras near Adel
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).