Flock & ALPR Cameras in Clive, Iowa
Volunteers have reported 38 automated license plate readers in and around Clive — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 38 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Clive, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 15 of them sit inside Clive itself.
The rest sit in West Des Moines (15), Urbandale (7), Windsor Heights (1).
28 of them name an operator in the record: Clive Police Department (14), West Des Moines Police Department (7), Urbandale Police Department (4), Lowe's (3). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 25 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 10 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Clive
The readers mapped around Clive break down as 37 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Clive Police Department, West Des Moines Police Department, Urbandale Police Department, Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Hickman Road — 6 readers
- University Avenue — 3 readers
- 68th Street — 3 readers
- E P True Parkway — 3 readers
- 50th Street — 2 readers
- Swanson Boulevard — 2 readers
- Northwest 86th Street — 2 readers
- Buffalo Road — 2 readers
- University Boulevard — 1 reader
- Northwest 100th Street — 1 reader
- 86th Street — 1 reader
- Northwest 111th Street — 1 reader
+ 10 more streets and roads mapped around Clive — all on the live map above.
Clive IA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Clive IA PD runs 20 cameras of its own, has logged 106 plate-database searches, has captured 475,199 vehicle records. Its network connects to 232 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Addison IL PD, Adrian MI PD, Akron OH PD, AR - Alma PD, Altoona IA PD, Anderson IN PD, Ankeny IA PD, Anoka County MN SO.
Clive in the Polk County picture
Polk County has 161 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #951 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 497,441 residents and 2,286 road miles. By road density that is 0.07 cameras per road mile, in the top 8.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 36 traffic. Operators named on the record: Clive Police Department (14), West Des Moines Police Department (7), Urbandale Police Department (4).
Camera activity around Clive, last 30 days
4 newly reported in our hourly change log for Clive. Latest change logged Sep 10, 2026.
What’s watching Clive
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 Clive — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Clive (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Clive
What you can do in Clive
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 Clive
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).