Flock & ALPR Cameras in Coralville, Iowa
Volunteers have reported 13 automated license plate readers in and around Coralville — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Contract Canceled
Coralville is on the record here. Coralville terminated its Flock license plate reader contract after months of public outcry.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 13 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Coralville, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 9 of them sit inside Coralville itself.
The rest sit in Iowa City (4).
12 of them name an operator in the record: Coral Ridge Mall (5), University of Iowa 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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No new reports near Coralville in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 21:38 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Coralville
The readers mapped around Coralville break down as 13 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: University of Iowa Police Department, Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2025; the most recent in Apr 2026.
- Coral Ridge Mall — 4 readers
- Mormon Trek Boulevard — 2 readers
- Hawkeye Park Road — 2 readers
- 2nd Street — 2 readers
- Coral Ridge Avenue — 1 reader
- Holiday Road — 1 reader
- 25th Avenue — 1 reader
Coralville IA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Coralville IA PD runs 2 cameras of its own, has logged 85 plate-database searches, has captured 147,812 vehicle records. Its network connects to 24 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Cedar Rapids IA PD, North Liberty IA PD, University of Iowa PD (IA).
Coralville in the Johnson County picture
Johnson County has 53 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #907 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 154,881 residents and 1,576 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 18.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 12 traffic, 1 street. Operators named on the record: University of Iowa Police Department (4), Lowe's (3).
What’s watching Coralville
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 Coralville — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Coralville (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Coralville
- UI maintains advanced license plate readers amid Coralville termination and privacy concerns
- Coralville community members speak out against proposal to add license plate reader cameras
- Coralville to remove license plate reader cameras
- Coralville to reconsider license plate reader cameras following policy concerns from Iowa Attorney General
What you can do in Coralville
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 Coralville
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).