Flock & ALPR Cameras in Altoona, Iowa
Volunteers have reported 68 automated license plate readers in and around Altoona — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 68 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Altoona, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 64 of them sit inside Altoona itself.
The rest sit in Bondurant (1), Pleasant Hill (1).
42 of them name an operator in the record: Altoona Police Department (39), Lowe's (2), Pleasant Hill Police Department (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
2 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 21 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 15 Axon Enterprise camera newly reported
- Sep 15 Axon Enterprise camera newly reported
- Sep 14 Axon Enterprise camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Altoona
The readers mapped around Altoona break down as 64 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Altoona Police Department, Lowe's, Pleasant Hill Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- 34th Avenue Southwest — 6 readers
- Northeast 80th Street — 4 readers
- 5th Avenue Southwest — 4 readers
- Hubbell Avenue — 4 readers
- 20th Avenue Northwest — 4 readers
- Northeast 27th Avenue — 3 readers
- Northeast 62nd Avenue — 3 readers
- Adventureland Drive — 3 readers
- 15th Street Southeast — 3 readers
- I 80 — 2 readers
- Northeast 70th Street — 2 readers
- 8th Street Southeast — 2 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Altoona — all on the live map above.
Altoona IA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Altoona IA PD runs 51 cameras of its own, has logged 179 plate-database searches, has captured 514,841 vehicle records. Its network connects to 153 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Altoona in the Polk County picture
Polk County has 161 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #951 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 497,441 residents and 2,286 road miles. By road density that is 0.07 cameras per road mile, in the top 8.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 61 traffic. Operators named on the record: Altoona Police Department (39), Lowe's (2), Pleasant Hill Police Department (1).
Camera activity around Altoona, last 30 days
20 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Altoona. Latest change logged Sep 7, 2026.
What’s watching Altoona
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 Altoona — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Altoona (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Altoona
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Altoona, IA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Altoona, IA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Altoona, IA
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Altoona, IA
What you can do in Altoona
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 Altoona
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).