Flock & ALPR Cameras in West Burlington, Iowa
Volunteers have reported 12 automated license plate readers in and around West Burlington — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 12 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of West Burlington, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 5 of them sit inside West Burlington itself.
The rest sit in Burlington (7).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (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 West Burlington
The readers mapped around West Burlington break down as 11 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in May 2026.
- West Burlington Avenue — 3 readers
- East Agency Road — 2 readers
- US 34;IA 163 — 1 reader
- North Roosevelt Avenue — 1 reader
- South Roosevelt Avenue — 1 reader
- East Mount Pleasant Street — 1 reader
- West Mount Pleasant Street — 1 reader
- West Agency Road — 1 reader
West Burlington IA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, West Burlington IA PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 10 other agencies.
West Burlington in the Des Moines County picture
Des Moines County has 18 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #596 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 38,597 residents and 1,100 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 33.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 10 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (1).
Camera activity around West Burlington, last 30 days
1 removed in our hourly change log for West Burlington. Latest change logged Aug 17, 2026.
What’s watching West Burlington
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 West Burlington — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to West Burlington (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in West Burlington
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 West Burlington
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).