Flock & ALPR Cameras in Bettendorf, Iowa
Volunteers have reported 20 automated license plate readers in and around Bettendorf — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 20 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Bettendorf, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 14 of them sit inside Bettendorf itself.
The rest sit in Davenport (6).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 8 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 8 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 8 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Bettendorf
The readers mapped around Bettendorf break down as 11 Flock Safety, 8 Genetec, 1 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- East 53rd Street — 4 readers
- Middle Road — 3 readers
- Parkway Drive — 3 readers
- Elmore Avenue — 1 reader
- East 39th Street — 1 reader
- I 74 — 1 reader
- 6th Street — 1 reader
- 56th Avenue West — 1 reader
- Grant Street — 1 reader
- Lincoln Road — 1 reader
- Eagle Heights Court — 1 reader
- 18th Street — 1 reader
+ 1 more streets and roads mapped around Bettendorf — all on the live map above.
Bettendorf IA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Bettendorf IA PD runs 61 cameras of its own, has logged 365 plate-database searches. Its network connects to 19 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Bettendorf in the Scott County picture
Scott County has 21 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,668 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 174,302 residents and 1,687 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 39% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 16 traffic, 1 parking_entrance.
Camera activity around Bettendorf, last 30 days
7 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Bettendorf. Latest change logged Sep 8, 2026.
What’s watching Bettendorf
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 Bettendorf — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Bettendorf (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Bettendorf
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Bettendorf, IA
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Bettendorf, IA
- Bettendorf OKs budget, drone agreement with Flock Safety
- Bettendorf license plate reader system leads to theft arrest
What you can do in Bettendorf
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 Bettendorf
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).