Flock & ALPR Cameras in Clear Lake, Iowa
Volunteers have reported 10 automated license plate readers in and around Clear Lake — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Clear Lake in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Clear Lake
The readers mapped around Clear Lake break down as 9 Flock Safety, 1 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Mar 2026.
- Main Avenue — 3 readers
- 4th Avenue South — 2 readers
- South 8th Street — 1 reader
- 7th Avenue North — 1 reader
- North 24th Street — 1 reader
- North 20th Street — 1 reader
- Indigo Avenue — 1 reader
Clear Lake IA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Clear Lake IA PD runs 11 cameras of its own, has logged 35 plate-database searches, has captured 65,884 vehicle records. Its network connects to 50 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Altoona IA PD, Ankeny IA PD, Arnolds Park IA PD, Bettendorf IA PD, Burlington IA PD, Carlisle IA PD, Cedar County IA SO, Cedar Rapids IA PD.
Clear Lake in the Cerro Gordo County picture
Cerro Gordo County has 10 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,246 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 42,785 residents and 869 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 40.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 10 traffic.
Camera activity around Clear Lake, last 30 days
1 removed in our hourly change log for Clear Lake. Latest change logged Aug 13, 2026.
What’s watching Clear 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 Clear Lake — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Clear Lake (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Clear 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 Clear Lake
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).