Flock & ALPR Cameras in Tipton, Iowa
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Tipton — 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 Tipton, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 2 of them sit inside Tipton itself.
The rest sit in Lowden (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Tipton in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 18:54 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Tipton
The readers mapped around Tipton break down as 4 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in May 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- US 30 — 2 readers
- Cedar Valley Road — 1 reader
- Cedar Street — 1 reader
Tipton IA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Tipton IA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 84 other agencies.
Tipton in the Cedar County picture
Cedar County has 4 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,319 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 18,427 residents and 1,035 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 66.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 4 traffic.
Camera activity around Tipton, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Tipton. Latest change logged Aug 27, 2026.
What’s watching Tipton
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 Tipton — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Tipton (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Tipton
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 Tipton
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).