Flock & ALPR Cameras in Le Mars, Iowa
Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around Le Mars — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 22 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Le Mars
The readers mapped around Le Mars break down as 4 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2026; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- Hawkeye Avenue Southwest — 2 readers
- Le Mars Bike Trail — 1 reader
- 12th Street Southeast — 1 reader
Le Mars IA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Le Mars IA PD runs 5 cameras of its own, has logged 21 plate-database searches, has captured 56,684 vehicle records. Its network connects to 46 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Le Mars in the Plymouth County picture
Plymouth County has 4 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,546 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 25,699 residents and 1,252 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 71.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 4 traffic.
What’s watching Le Mars
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 Le Mars — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Le Mars (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Le Mars
- Flock Cameras in Le Mars - KLEM 1410
- Le Mars Stingray Swim Team open for registration
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Marshalltown, IA
- Marshalltown Flock Cameras Lead to Multiple Arrests
What you can do in Le Mars
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 Le Mars
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).