Flock & ALPR Cameras in Newton, Iowa
Volunteers have reported 14 automated license plate readers in and around Newton — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 14 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Newton, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 13 of them sit inside Newton itself.
The rest sit in Palo Alto Township (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Newton in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Newton
The readers mapped around Newton break down as 14 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Iowa Speedway Drive — 3 readers
- East 8th Street North — 3 readers
- 1st Avenue East — 2 readers
- West 4th Street North — 1 reader
- Hike and Bike Trail — 1 reader
- 1st Avenue West — 1 reader
- North 19th Avenue East — 1 reader
- East 12th Street South — 1 reader
- Rusty Wallace Drive — 1 reader
Newton IA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Newton IA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 60 other agencies.
Newton in the Jasper County picture
Jasper County has 6 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,533 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 37,864 residents and 1,460 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 65.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 14 traffic.
Camera activity around Newton, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Newton. Latest change logged Aug 19, 2026.
What’s watching Newton
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 Newton — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Newton (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Newton
- On the agenda: Newton September 21, 2026 City Council Goal Setting Workshop — LPR camera (Sep 21)
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Newton, IA
- ALPR Network Gets Council Approval in Newton, Iowa
What you can do in Newton
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 Newton
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).