Flock & ALPR Cameras in Pella, Iowa
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Pella — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 5 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Pella, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Pella itself.
The rest sit in Lake Prairie Township (3), Clay Township (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Pella in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 18:09 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Pella
The readers mapped around Pella break down as 4 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Feb 2026.
- 228th Avenue — 1 reader
- County Highway G28 — 1 reader
- Idaho Drive — 1 reader
- IA 92 — 1 reader
- County Highway T15 — 1 reader
Pella in the Marion County picture
Marion County has 9 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,117 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 33,551 residents and 1,010 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 46.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 3 traffic.
What’s watching Pella
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 Pella — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Pella (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Pella
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 Pella
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).