Flock & ALPR Cameras in Waukee, Iowa
Volunteers have reported 36 automated license plate readers in and around Waukee — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Contract Canceled
Waukee is on the record here. Waukee Police Chief Chad McCluskey announced August 14, 2026 that the department will not renew its Flock Safety ALPR contract and will stop using the cameras pending the 2027 Iowa legislative session. The Des Moines Register reported 11 cameras and that none had been vandalized locally. Waukee was the first Des Moines metro city reported to drop Flock; Coralville canceled earlier in 2026.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 36 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Waukee, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 9 of them sit inside Waukee itself.
The rest sit in West Des Moines (19), Clive (4), Urbandale (4).
27 of them name an operator in the record: Waukee Police Department (10), West Des Moines Police Department (10), Clive Police Department (5), Urbandale Police Department (2). 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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- Oct 1 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Oct 1 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Oct 1 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Oct 1 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Waukee
The readers mapped around Waukee break down as 30 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Waukee Police Department, West Des Moines Police Department, Clive Police Department, Urbandale Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Jordan Creek Parkway — 7 readers
- Southeast Grand Prairie Parkway — 5 readers
- Raccoon River Valley Trail — 3 readers
- Hickman Road — 2 readers
- Northwest 142nd Street — 2 readers
- Bridgewood Boulevard — 1 reader
- Office Plaza Drive North — 1 reader
- Mills Civic Parkway — 1 reader
- Office Plaza Drive — 1 reader
- Jordan Creek Trail — 1 reader
- 88th Street — 1 reader
- Douglas Parkway — 1 reader
+ 5 more streets and roads mapped around Waukee — all on the live map above.
Waukee IA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Waukee IA PD runs 11 cameras of its own, has logged 50 plate-database searches, has captured 237,115 vehicle records. Its network connects to 109 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Altoona IA PD, Ankeny IA PD, Arnolds Park IA PD, Bettendorf IA PD, Burlington IA PD, Camanche IA PD, Carlisle IA PD, Carter Lake IA PD.
Waukee in the Dallas County picture
Dallas County has 53 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #496 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 23.2% nationally. That’s across 104,136 residents and 1,235 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 14.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 31 traffic. Operators named on the record: Waukee Police Department (10), West Des Moines Police Department (10), Clive Police Department (5).
Camera activity around Waukee, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Waukee. Latest change logged Aug 15, 2026.
What’s watching Waukee
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 Waukee — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Waukee (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Waukee
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Waukee, IA
- Waukee ends Flock camera contract amid concerns, awaits legislation
- Waukee police end relationship with Flock, citing privacy concerns
- Waukee police ending automated license plate reader program
What you can do in Waukee
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 Waukee
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).