Flock & ALPR Cameras in Council Bluffs, Iowa
Volunteers have reported 25 automated license plate readers in and around Council Bluffs — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 28 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Council Bluffs, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 24 of them sit inside Council Bluffs itself.
The rest sit in Lake Township (2), Lewis Township (1), Underwood (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Council Bluffs in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 22:21 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Council Bluffs
The readers mapped around Council Bluffs break down as 28 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Metro Drive — 2 readers
- North 16th Street — 2 readers
- Old Lincoln Highway — 2 readers
- West Broadway — 2 readers
- 23rd Avenue — 2 readers
- South 24th Street — 2 readers
- Railroad Highway — 2 readers
- East Kanesville Boulevard — 1 reader
- 32nd Avenue — 1 reader
- 35th Avenue — 1 reader
- 30th Avenue — 1 reader
- Denmark Drive — 1 reader
+ 9 more streets and roads mapped around Council Bluffs — all on the live map above.
Council Bluffs IA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Council Bluffs IA PD runs 37 cameras of its own, has logged 423 plate-database searches, has captured 347,190 vehicle records. Its network connects to 108 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Allen County KS SO, Altoona IA PD, Ankeny IA PD, Arnolds Park IA PD, Bettendorf IA PD, Burlington IA PD, Camanche IA PD, Cape Girardeau MO PD.
Council Bluffs in the Pottawattamie County picture
Pottawattamie County has 29 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #986 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 93,407 residents and 1,510 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 29.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 22 traffic, 1 street.
What’s watching Council Bluffs
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 Council Bluffs — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Council Bluffs (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Council Bluffs
- Council Bluffs has spent nearly $343,000 on Flock since 2022
- Read the City of Council Bluffs' contract with Flock Safety
- Take a look at how Council Bluffs is reevaluating Flock cameras
- The Reframe | What to know about Council Bluffs evaluating Flock cameras
What you can do in Council Bluffs
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 Council Bluffs
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).