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Flock & ALPR Cameras in De Witt, Iowa

Volunteers have reported 14 automated license plate readers in and around De Witt — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 14 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of De Witt, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside De Witt itself.

The rest sit in DeWitt (11), Welton (1).

2 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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14
Reported cameras nearby
#19
of 89 Iowa cities tracked
1.5%
of Iowa’s reported cameras
Live camera map 14 reported cameras around De Witt, 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 De Witt

No new reports near De Witt in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 19:23 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in De Witt

The readers mapped around De Witt break down as 14 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.

  • 11th Street — 3 readers
  • 245th Street — 1 reader
  • Lake Street — 1 reader
  • Humeston Road — 1 reader
  • South 6th Avenue — 1 reader
  • 280th Avenue — 1 reader
  • 225th Street — 1 reader
  • 285th Avenue — 1 reader
  • 278th Street — 1 reader
  • 292nd Street — 1 reader
  • South 5th Avenue East — 1 reader
  • Old US Highway 61 — 1 reader

De Witt in the Clinton County picture

Clinton County has 22 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #578 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 46,383 residents and 1,402 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 34.3% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 14 traffic.

Camera activity around De Witt, last 30 days

1 newly reported in our hourly change log for De Witt. Latest change logged Aug 13, 2026.

What’s watching De Witt

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 Witt — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to De Witt (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 Witt

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 De Witt

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