Flock & ALPR Cameras in Marcus, Iowa
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Marcus — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 2 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Marcus, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Marcus itself.
The rest sit in Cherokee (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 16 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Marcus
The readers mapped around Marcus break down as 1 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Aug 2026.
- 530th Street — 1 reader
Marcus IA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Marcus IA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 15 other agencies.
Marcus in the Cherokee County picture
Cherokee County has 0 reported cameras county-wide. That’s across 11,587 residents and 856 road miles.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 1 traffic.
What’s watching Marcus
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 Marcus — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Marcus (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Marcus
- DAVID MARCUS: Canada sees Trump trade war as ‘life and death’ while Americans barely notice
- Cherokee County mulls license plate readers south of Marcus - The Cherokee Chronicle Times
What you can do in Marcus
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 Marcus
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).