Flock & ALPR Cameras in De Soto, Iowa
Volunteers have reported 1 automated license plate readers in and around De Soto — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 20 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
De Soto in the Dallas County picture
Dallas County has 53 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #496 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 23.2% nationally. That’s across 104,136 residents and 1,235 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 14.9% of counties nationally.
What’s watching De Soto
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 De Soto — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to De Soto (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in De Soto
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 De Soto
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).