City Surveillance Report · Updated August 15, 2026 · Refreshes nightly

Flock Safety & ALPR Cameras in Angola, Indiana

3

license plate reader cameras documented inside the city limits — including 3 made by Flock Safety

#98 of 566 cities & towns 0.3 per 1,000 residents Steuben County report

Documented cameras

3

3 tagged Flock Safety

Statewide rank

#98

of 566 cities and towns

Per 1,000 residents

0.3

pop. 9,432

Per sq mi

0.4

6.7 sq mi

Live camera map

Where the Cameras Are

Every documented ALPR camera location inside Angola's incorporated limits (3 points), refreshed nightly. Click any marker to suggest a correction.

Faded, dashed markers are cameras within about 5 miles of Angola but outside its limits. They're shown for context only and are not included in the count of 3.

Camera locations © OpenStreetMap contributors (the dataset behind DeFlock.me); city boundary from US Census cartographic files. Only cameras inside Angola's incorporated boundary are counted here — cameras on nearby unincorporated roads appear in the Steuben County report. See every Indiana camera on the statewide map, or download coordinates for every point from our datasets.

See a camera that isn't on this map?

This map is crowdsourced — volunteers document each camera, and the data gets better with more volunteers. Drop a pin, tell us which way it faces, and a volunteer will verify it and publish it to OpenStreetMap.

Who operates them

Agencies Using License Plate Readers Here

The Atlas of Surveillance, a project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, has documented 1 law enforcement agency using automated license plate readers in Angola.

Agency Type Vendor
Angola Police Department Police Flock Safety

Statewide context

How Angola Compares

#98 of 566 cities & towns by total cameras 3 cameras documented 0.3 per 1,000 residents 0.4 per sq mi
City / Town Cameras Per 1,000 residents Per sq mi
Indianapolis 564 0.6 1.6
Carmel 109 1.1 2.2
Fort Wayne 94 0.3 0.8
Evansville 71 0.6 1.5
Jeffersonville 70 1.3 2.1
Angola (#98) 3 0.3 0.4
Indiana statewide 3,529

Cities and towns ranked near Angola: Whiteland (4) · Winchester (4) · Corydon (3) · Daleville (3). See all 566 cities and towns ranked or the full statewide and 50-state figures in our live datasets.

Elsewhere in Steuben County: Clear Lake (0) · Fremont (0) · Hamilton (0) · Hudson (0) · Orland (0). The countywide report also covers cameras outside incorporated limits.

The technology

What Flock Cameras and ALPRs Do

Automated license plate readers — best known through the vendor Flock Safety — scan every passing vehicle and feed the results into a searchable database, regardless of whether the driver is suspected of anything.

Photographs Every Vehicle

Every plate that passes a camera is logged — license number, location, and timestamp — building a record of movement with no suspicion required.

Builds a Permanent Location History

Indiana agencies report roughly 690 vehicles detected per camera per day. Even a small deployment maps where residents of Angola drive, worship, seek care, and gather.

Shared With No Statewide Limits

Indiana places no limit on how long this data is kept or who can access it — including out-of-state agencies, federal databases, and private vendors.

The Issue

Indiana has zero statewide regulation on law enforcement's use of ALPRs

Three gaps in state law leave officers, agencies, and the public without ground rules.

Indefinite Data Retention

Indiana places no limit on how long police can keep ALPR data. Without mandatory deletion rules, agencies can store years of location records from routine scans, allowing long-term monitoring of citizens' movements with no oversight or expiration.

Unrestricted Sharing and Sale of Data

With no rules on who can access ALPR records, officers and agencies can share — or even sell — Hoosiers' location data with whomever they like, including out-of-state agencies, federal databases, and private vendors.

Lack of Transparency and Oversight

Indiana has no statewide standards requiring transparency or oversight for ALPR use. Without clear requirements for audit logs, reporting, or review, it is difficult to verify that ALPR systems are used consistently and according to policy.

Concerned about surveillance in Angola?

Indiana has no statewide rules for license plate readers. Add your name and tell your legislators that Angola residents want limits on retention, access, and oversight.

Community

Get Involved in Angola

Local organizing, news coverage, and public records — all submitted by residents like you and reviewed before publishing.

Local Groups

No local groups in Angola are listed yet. If you're organizing around surveillance and privacy here, yours could be the first — countywide groups are listed on the Steuben County report.

In the News

No news coverage is listed for Angola yet. Seen a local story about license plate readers here? Share it so neighbors can follow the story.

Public Records

No public records are listed for Angola yet. Have a Flock contract, FOIA response, or policy document? Upload it for residents and journalists to find.

Spread the word

Share These Stats

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Common questions

Frequently Asked Questions

3 ALPR cameras have been documented inside Angola's incorporated limits, and at least 3 of them are made by Flock Safety. This count updates automatically from OpenStreetMap, the crowdsourced dataset behind DeFlock.me, and the true number is likely higher.

The Atlas of Surveillance documents 1 law enforcement agencies using license plate readers in Angola: Angola Police Department.

No. Indiana has no statewide law governing automated license plate readers, so there are no required limits on how long agencies in Angola retain your location data, who can search it, or how it is audited. Eyes Off Indiana is petitioning the Indiana General Assembly to pass statewide safeguards — see our policy goals.

Sign the Eyes Off Indiana petition, then contact your state legislators. Statewide rules on retention, access, and oversight require action by the Indiana General Assembly, and legislators track how many constituents from each community reach out.

Data and Methods

Camera counts and locations are every OpenStreetMap node tagged man_made=surveillance with surveillance:type=ALPR inside Angola's incorporated boundary, refreshed nightly at midnight (US Eastern) via the Overpass API and assigned to the city with US Census cartographic place polygons; population and land area are US Census Vintage 2024 figures; agency records are from the Atlas of Surveillance. Cameras outside incorporated limits are covered at the county level. Full methodology — including how documented counts relate to installed counts, known biases, statewide growth since 2022, and rankings for all 50 states — is in our living statistical report, where every dataset on this page can be downloaded as CSV or JSON.