Flock & ALPR Cameras in Dubuque, Iowa
Volunteers have reported 11 automated license plate readers in and around Dubuque — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 15 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Dubuque, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 12 of them sit inside Dubuque itself.
The rest sit in Table Mound Township (2), Sageville (1).
4 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (4). 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 Dubuque in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:26 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Dubuque
The readers mapped around Dubuque break down as 13 Flock Safety, 2 AXIS. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Mar 2025.
- US 61;US 151 — 5 readers
- Dodge Street — 3 readers
- Bellevue Road — 2 readers
- South Locust Street — 2 readers
- Admiral Sheehy Drive — 1 reader
- IA 3 — 1 reader
- Julien Dubuque Bridge — 1 reader
Dubuque IA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Dubuque IA PD runs 22 cameras of its own, has logged 463 plate-database searches, has captured 323,128 vehicle records. Its network connects to 90 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Dubuque in the Dubuque County picture
Dubuque County has 34 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #903 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 98,948 residents and 996 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 18.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 15 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (4).
What’s watching Dubuque
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 Dubuque — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Dubuque (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Dubuque
- Dubuque residents question oversight of license plate camera system
- Dubuque presentation to examine license-plate readers, privacy
- Flock Cameras are Watching Roads Across the City of Dubuque
- Immigrant rights group questions Dubuque's safeguards for Flock cameras
What you can do in Dubuque
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 Dubuque
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).