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Iowa · Local Surveillance Report

Flock & ALPR Cameras in Sac City, Iowa

Volunteers have reported 3 automated license plate readers in and around Sac City — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 3 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Sac City, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Sac City itself.

The rest sit in Boyer Valley Township (2), Wall Lake Township (1).

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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Reported cameras nearby
#59
of 89 Iowa cities tracked
0.3%
of Iowa’s reported cameras
Live camera map 3 reported cameras around Sac City, Iowa
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Sac City
+2 this week +7 last 30 days −5 removed
  • Oct 4 Axis Communications camera newly reported
  • Oct 4 LiveView Technologies camera newly reported
  • Sep 30 Axis Communications camera newly reported
  • Sep 30 Axis Communications camera newly reported

Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.

Where the cameras are in Sac City

The readers mapped around Sac City break down as 1 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Aug 2026.

  • 280th Street — 1 reader

Sac City in the Sac County picture

Sac County has 0 reported cameras county-wide. That’s across 9,759 residents and 731 road miles.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 1 traffic.

What’s watching Sac City

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 Sac City — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Sac City (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

The latest around Sac City

What you can do in Sac City

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.

Cameras near Sac City

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).