Flock & ALPR Cameras in Earlham, Iowa
Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around Earlham — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 4 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Earlham, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 2 of them sit inside Earlham itself.
The rest sit in Madison Township (1), Penn Township (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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On the agenda: Earlham 10-12-26 CC agenda — Flock Camera (Oct 12)
Monday, October 12 — today · The full record → · Read the agenda ↗
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No new reports near Earlham in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 13, 01:57 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Earlham
The readers mapped around Earlham break down as 4 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- 105th Street — 2 readers
- County Road P57 — 1 reader
- Earlham Road — 1 reader
Earlham IA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Earlham IA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 29 other agencies.
Earlham in the Madison County picture
Madison County has 3 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,457 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 16,760 residents and 1,210 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 76.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 4 traffic.
What’s watching Earlham
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 Earlham — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Earlham (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Earlham
- On the agenda: Earlham 10-12-26 CC agenda — Flock Camera (Oct 12)
- On the agenda: Earlham 10-5-26 Agenda — Flock Camera (Oct 5)
- On the agenda: Earlham 9-14-26 CC agenda — Flock Camera (Sep 14)
- On the agenda: Earlham 8-10-26 CC agenda — Flock Camera (Aug 10)
What you can do in Earlham
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 Earlham
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).