Flock & ALPR Cameras in Storm Lake, Iowa
Volunteers have reported 19 automated license plate readers in and around Storm Lake — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Storm Lake in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 00:33 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Storm Lake
The readers mapped around Storm Lake break down as 20 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Storm Lake Police Department, Kading Properties, LLC. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Mar 2026.
- 590th Street — 4 readers
- East Milwaukee Avenue — 2 readers
- West Milwaukee Avenue — 2 readers
- Highway 7 — 2 readers
- Storm Lake — 2 readers
- 90th Avenue — 1 reader
- East Lakeshore Drive — 1 reader
- State Highway 110 — 1 reader
- North Lake Avenue — 1 reader
- 100th Avenue — 1 reader
- Expansion Boulevard — 1 reader
- County Road M44 — 1 reader
+ 1 more streets and roads mapped around Storm Lake — all on the live map above.
Storm Lake IA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Storm Lake IA PD runs 25 cameras of its own, has logged 60 plate-database searches, has captured 56,316 vehicle records. Its network connects to 128 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Storm Lake in the Buena Vista County picture
Buena Vista County has 20 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #109 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 5.1% nationally. That’s across 20,684 residents and 693 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 22.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 20 traffic. Operators named on the record: Storm Lake Police Department (17), Kading Properties, LLC (3).
What’s watching Storm Lake
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 Storm Lake — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Storm Lake (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Storm Lake
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 Storm Lake
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).