Flock & ALPR Cameras in Centerville, Iowa
No cameras reported in and around Centerville — yet. That usually means nobody has checked, not that the roads are clear. Be the one who looks.
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Help put Centerville on the map
The camera map is built by volunteers, one report at a time — and nobody has surveyed Centerville yet. ALPRs look like small gray cameras on poles, often solar-powered, near intersections and shopping centers. Spot one? Reporting takes about a minute.
No new reports near Centerville in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 9, 22:07 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Centerville
The readers mapped around Centerville break down as 3 of unrecorded make. Every report here dates to Jun 2025.
- IA 5 — 3 readers
Centerville in the Appanoose County picture
Appanoose County has 3 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,200 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 12,242 residents and 848 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 69.2% of counties nationally.
Why this page exists
Automated license plate readers are spreading town by town, usually with no public vote — volunteers have already mapped 922 across Iowa. Cameras often arrive quietly in towns exactly like Centerville: a council consent-agenda item, then poles by the grocery store. Learn what they look like, check the roads you drive daily, and this page will update as reports come in.
The latest around Centerville
What you can do in Centerville
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 Centerville
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).