Flock & ALPR Cameras in Fairfax, Iowa
Volunteers have reported 9 automated license plate readers in and around Fairfax — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 9 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Fairfax, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Fairfax itself.
The rest sit in Cedar Rapids (9).
9 of them name an operator in the record: Cedar Rapids Police Department (9). 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 Fairfax in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:26 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Fairfax
The readers mapped around Fairfax break down as 9 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Cedar Rapids Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2025; the most recent in Apr 2025.
- 16th Avenue Southwest — 3 readers
- Edgewood Road Southwest — 2 readers
- 33rd Avenue Southwest — 1 reader
- Williams Boulevard Southwest — 1 reader
- 1st Avenue West — 1 reader
- Wiley Boulevard Southwest — 1 reader
Fairfax in the Linn County picture
Linn County has 80 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #890 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 229,463 residents and 1,852 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 14.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 9 traffic. Operators named on the record: Cedar Rapids Police Department (9).
What’s watching Fairfax
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 Fairfax — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Fairfax (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Fairfax
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 Fairfax
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).