Flock & ALPR Cameras in North Liberty, Iowa
Volunteers have reported 10 automated license plate readers in and around North Liberty — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 10 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of North Liberty, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 8 of them sit inside North Liberty itself.
The rest sit in Coralville (2).
9 of them name an operator in the record: North Liberty 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 North Liberty in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 23:26 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in North Liberty
The readers mapped around North Liberty break down as 10 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: North Liberty Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2025; the most recent in Nov 2025.
- West Penn Street — 2 readers
- North Highway 965 — 2 readers
- West Forevergreen Road — 2 readers
- East Forevergreen Road — 1 reader
- South Highway 965 — 1 reader
- Dubuque Street Northeast — 1 reader
- Iowa River Corridor Trail — 1 reader
North Liberty IA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, North Liberty IA PD runs 12 cameras of its own, has logged 23 plate-database searches, has captured 184,454 vehicle records. Its network connects to 80 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
North Liberty in the Johnson County picture
Johnson County has 53 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #907 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 154,881 residents and 1,576 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 18.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 10 traffic. Operators named on the record: North Liberty Police Department (9).
What’s watching North Liberty
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 North Liberty — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to North Liberty (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around North Liberty
What you can do in North Liberty
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 North Liberty
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).