Flock & ALPR Cameras in Dakota City, Nebraska
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Dakota City — 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 Dakota City, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Dakota City itself.
The rest sit in Homer (1), Hubbard (1), Jackson (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Dakota City in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 18:11 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Dakota City
The readers mapped around Dakota City break down as 4 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Mar 2026.
- Broadway Street — 1 reader
- Highway 77 — 1 reader
- East Elk Street — 1 reader
- Highway 35 — 1 reader
Dakota City in the Dakota County picture
Dakota County has 18 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #162 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 7.5% nationally. That’s across 21,331 residents and 557 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 19.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 3 traffic.
What’s watching Dakota 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 Dakota City — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Dakota City (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Dakota 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 Dakota City
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).