Flock & ALPR Cameras in Avoca, Iowa
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Avoca — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 2 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Avoca, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Avoca itself.
The rest sit in Shelby (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Avoca in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:14 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Avoca
The readers mapped around Avoca break down as 2 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Jul 2026.
- 385th Street — 1 reader
- Avoca Lane — 1 reader
Avoca in the Pottawattamie County picture
Pottawattamie County has 29 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #986 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 93,407 residents and 1,510 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 29.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic.
What’s watching Avoca
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 Avoca — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Avoca (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Avoca
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 Avoca
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).