Flock & ALPR Cameras in Sioux City, Iowa
Volunteers have reported 14 automated license plate readers in and around Sioux City — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 17 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Sioux City, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 16 of them sit inside Sioux City itself.
The rest sit in Woodbury Township (1).
4 of them name an operator in the record: Sioux City Police (2), Lowe's (1), Sioiux City Police (1). 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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- Sep 12 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Sioux City
The readers mapped around Sioux City break down as 16 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Sioux City Police, Sioiux City Police, Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Outer Drive North — 1 reader
- Wesley Parkway — 1 reader
- Veterans Memorial Bridge Trail — 1 reader
- Nebraska Street — 1 reader
- Highway 20 — 1 reader
- US 20 Business — 1 reader
- US 75 — 1 reader
- Military Road — 1 reader
- Railroad Museum Bike Path Extension — 1 reader
- East Gordon Drive — 1 reader
- I 29 — 1 reader
- West 5th Street — 1 reader
+ 4 more streets and roads mapped around Sioux City — all on the live map above.
Sioux City IA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Sioux City IA PD runs 12 cameras of its own, has logged 332 plate-database searches, has captured 319,422 vehicle records. Its network connects to 150 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Sioux City 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 16 traffic. Operators named on the record: Sioux City Police (2), Sioiux City Police (1), Lowe's (1).
What’s watching Sioux 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 Sioux City — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Sioux City (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Sioux City
- License plate readers lead to the arrest of a Sioux City man after a woman's body was found in Riverside Park
- How license plate readers led to an arrest after a body was found in a Sioux City park
- Sioux City will not move forward with two finalists for police chief
- On the agenda: Sioux City minutes — Flock Camera (Aug 10)
What you can do in Sioux 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.
Not sure what one looks like? See photographs of installed cameras before you go looking.
Cameras near Sioux City
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).