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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Davenport, Iowa

Volunteers have reported 11 automated license plate readers in and around Davenport — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

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11
Reported cameras nearby
#24
of 89 Iowa cities tracked
1.2%
of Iowa’s reported cameras
Live camera map 11 reported cameras around Davenport, Iowa
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Davenport

No new reports near Davenport in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 00:33 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Davenport

The readers mapped around Davenport break down as 10 Flock Safety, 1 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.

  • West Locust Street — 2 readers
  • West 46th Street — 1 reader
  • East Locust Street — 1 reader
  • East 59th Street — 1 reader
  • West 59th Street — 1 reader
  • North Division Street — 1 reader
  • West 4th Street — 1 reader
  • West 67th Street — 1 reader
  • Brady Street — 1 reader
  • Hickory Grove Road — 1 reader

Davenport IA PD and the sharing network

Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Davenport IA PD runs 10 cameras of its own, has logged 357 plate-database searches, has captured 227,617 vehicle records. Its network connects to 1,171 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.

Connected agencies include: 18th Judicial District Drug Task Force - TN PD, Abbotsford WI PD, Acworth GA PD, Adairville KY PD, Adams County IL SO, Adams County WI SO, Adams WI PD, Adrian MI PD.

Davenport in the Scott County picture

Scott County has 21 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,668 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 174,302 residents and 1,687 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 39% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 11 traffic.

Camera activity around Davenport, last 30 days

2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Davenport. Latest change logged Sep 4, 2026.

What’s watching Davenport

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 Davenport — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Davenport (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

The latest around Davenport

What you can do in Davenport

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.

Cameras near Davenport

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).