Flock & ALPR Cameras in Norwalk, Iowa
Volunteers have reported 10 automated license plate readers in and around Norwalk — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 11 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Norwalk, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 5 of them sit inside Norwalk itself.
The rest sit in Des Moines (3), Cumming (2), Martensdale (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Norwalk Police Department (1). 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 Norwalk in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 21:32 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Norwalk
The readers mapped around Norwalk break down as 10 Flock Safety, 1 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Norwalk Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Cumming Avenue — 2 readers
- Northwest 49th Street — 1 reader
- State Highway 28 — 1 reader
- Chatham Avenue — 1 reader
- Southwest 9th Street — 1 reader
- IA 92 — 1 reader
- County Road R57 — 1 reader
- County Road G14 — 1 reader
- County Park — 1 reader
- Payton Avenue — 1 reader
Norwalk IA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Norwalk IA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 9 other agencies.
Norwalk in the Warren County picture
Warren County has 21 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #750 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 53,484 residents and 1,006 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 28.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 11 traffic. Operators named on the record: Norwalk Police Department (1).
Camera activity around Norwalk, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Norwalk. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.
What’s watching Norwalk
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 Norwalk — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Norwalk (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Norwalk
- 3 license plate readers reported removed near Norwalk, IA
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Norwalk, IA
What you can do in Norwalk
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 Norwalk
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).