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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Sergeant Bluff, Iowa

Volunteers have reported 21 automated license plate readers in and around Sergeant Bluff — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 22 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Sergeant Bluff, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 9 of them sit inside Sergeant Bluff itself.

The rest sit in Sioux City (12), Liberty Township (1).

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

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21
Reported cameras nearby
#9
of 89 Iowa cities tracked
2.3%
of Iowa’s reported cameras
Live camera map 21 reported cameras around Sergeant Bluff, 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 Sergeant Bluff

No new reports near Sergeant Bluff in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:10 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Sergeant Bluff

The readers mapped around Sergeant Bluff break down as 22 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in May 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.

  • 1st Street — 4 readers
  • South Lewis Boulevard — 3 readers
  • Sunnybrook Drive — 3 readers
  • Sioux City — 3 readers
  • 8th Street — 1 reader
  • Old Lakeport Road — 1 reader
  • Sergeant Square Drive — 1 reader
  • I 29 — 1 reader
  • Sergeant Road — 1 reader
  • Old Highway 75 — 1 reader
  • Southern Hills Drive — 1 reader
  • Dogwood Trail — 1 reader

+ 1 more streets and roads mapped around Sergeant Bluff — all on the live map above.

Sergeant Bluff IA PD and the sharing network

Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Sergeant Bluff IA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 40 other agencies.

Sergeant Bluff in the Woodbury County picture

Woodbury County has 40 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #796 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 105,760 residents and 1,959 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 28.6% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 19 traffic.

What’s watching Sergeant Bluff

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

The latest around Sergeant Bluff

What you can do in Sergeant Bluff

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 Sergeant Bluff

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