Flock & ALPR Cameras in Carter Lake, Iowa
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Carter Lake — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 5 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Carter Lake, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Carter Lake itself.
The rest sit in Council Bluffs (4), Crescent (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Carter Lake in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 18:58 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Carter Lake
The readers mapped around Carter Lake break down as 5 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- West Broadway — 2 readers
- Avenue A — 1 reader
- Grand Army of the Republic Highway — 1 reader
- Pokamoke Lane — 1 reader
Carter Lake IA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Carter Lake IA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 19 other agencies.
Carter Lake in the Douglas County picture
Douglas County has 59 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,767 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 585,461 residents and 2,173 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 22.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 5 traffic.
Camera activity around Carter Lake, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Carter Lake. Latest change logged Aug 19, 2026.
What’s watching Carter Lake
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 Carter Lake — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Carter Lake (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Carter Lake
- Carter Lake police talk Flock cameras
- Carter Lake police detail Flock cameras as scrutiny grows
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Carter Lake, IA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Carter Lake, IA
What you can do in Carter Lake
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 Carter Lake
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).