Flock & ALPR Cameras in Pleasant Hill, Iowa
Volunteers have reported 7 automated license plate readers in and around Pleasant Hill — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 7 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Pleasant Hill, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 5 of them sit inside Pleasant Hill itself.
The rest sit in Des Moines (2).
3 of them name an operator in the record: Pleasant Hill Police Department (3). 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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- Apr 14, 2026 On the agenda: Pleasant Hill meeting — License Plate Reader (Apr 14)
- Mar 26, 2026 On the agenda: Pleasant Hill meeting — Surveillance Camera (Mar 26)
- Feb 26, 2026 On the agenda: Pleasant Hill meeting — Surveillance Camera (Feb 26)
- Jan 13, 2026 On the agenda: Pleasant Hill meeting — FLOCK SAFETY (Jan 13)
Every record for this area on the Docket → · nothing is ever deleted.
- Sep 22 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Pleasant Hill
The readers mapped around Pleasant Hill break down as 6 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Pleasant Hill Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Military Order of the Purple Heart Highway — 1 reader
- East University Avenue — 1 reader
- Vandalia Road — 1 reader
- Northeast 23rd Avenue — 1 reader
- Easter Lake Drive — 1 reader
- East Watrous Avenue — 1 reader
Pleasant Hill IA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Pleasant Hill IA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 67 other agencies.
Pleasant Hill in the Polk County picture
Polk County has 161 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #951 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 497,441 residents and 2,286 road miles. By road density that is 0.07 cameras per road mile, in the top 8.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 6 traffic. Operators named on the record: Pleasant Hill Police Department (3).
What’s watching Pleasant Hill
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 Pleasant Hill — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Pleasant Hill (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Pleasant Hill
- Cameras don't track people, Flock does
- On the agenda: Pleasant Hill meeting — License Plate Reader (Apr 14)
- On the agenda: Pleasant Hill meeting — Surveillance Camera (Mar 26)
- On the agenda: Pleasant Hill meeting — FLOCK SAFETY (Jan 13)
What you can do in Pleasant Hill
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 Pleasant Hill
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).