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Iowa · Local Surveillance Report

Flock & ALPR Cameras in Evansdale, Iowa

Volunteers have reported 3 automated license plate readers in and around Evansdale — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 3 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Evansdale, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Evansdale itself.

The rest sit in Waterloo (2).

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

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Reported cameras nearby
#57
of 89 Iowa cities tracked
0.3%
of Iowa’s reported cameras
Live camera map 3 reported cameras around Evansdale, 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 Evansdale
+3 this week +3 last 30 days
  • Oct 4 Axis Communications camera newly reported
  • Oct 4 Axis Communications camera newly reported
  • Oct 4 Axis Communications camera newly reported

Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.

Evansdale in the Black Hawk County picture

Black Hawk County has 5 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #2,046 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 130,693 residents and 1,173 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 64.2% of counties nationally.

Camera activity around Evansdale, last 30 days

2 newly reported, 2 removed in our hourly change log for Evansdale. Latest change logged Sep 3, 2026.

What’s watching Evansdale

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

The latest around Evansdale

What you can do in Evansdale

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 Evansdale

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