Flock & ALPR Cameras in Saylorville, Iowa
Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around Saylorville — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 4 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Saylorville, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Saylorville itself.
The rest sit in Ankeny (4).
4 of them name an operator in the record: Ankeny Police Department (4). 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 Saylorville in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 08:01 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Saylorville
The readers mapped around Saylorville break down as 4 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Ankeny Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in May 2025.
- Southeast Delaware Avenue — 1 reader
- Southwest State Street — 1 reader
- South Ankeny Boulevard — 1 reader
- Northwest 78th Avenue — 1 reader
Saylorville 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 4 traffic. Operators named on the record: Ankeny Police Department (4).
What’s watching Saylorville
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 Saylorville — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Saylorville (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Saylorville
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 Saylorville
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).