Flock & ALPR Cameras in Clear Lake, South Dakota
No cameras reported in and around Clear Lake — yet. That usually means nobody has checked, not that the roads are clear. Be the one who looks.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 2 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Clear Lake, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Clear Lake itself.
The rest sit in Portland Township (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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Help put Clear Lake on the map
The camera map is built by volunteers, one report at a time — and nobody has surveyed Clear Lake yet. ALPRs look like small gray cameras on poles, often solar-powered, near intersections and shopping centers. Spot one? Reporting takes about a minute.
- Oct 1 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
- Oct 1 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Clear Lake
The readers mapped around Clear Lake break down as 1 Genetec. Every report here dates to Jul 2026.
- US Highway 212 — 1 reader
Clear Lake in the Deuel County picture
Deuel County has 0 reported cameras county-wide. That’s across 4,318 residents and 1,240 road miles.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 1 traffic.
Why this page exists
Automated license plate readers are spreading town by town, usually with no public vote — volunteers have already mapped 187 across South Dakota. Cameras often arrive quietly in towns exactly like Clear Lake: a council consent-agenda item, then poles by the grocery store. Learn what they look like, check the roads you drive daily, and this page will update as reports come in.
The latest around Clear Lake
What you can do in Clear 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 Clear Lake
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).