City Surveillance Report · Updated August 15, 2026 · Refreshes nightly
Flock Safety & ALPR Cameras in Brownsburg, Indiana
license plate reader cameras documented inside the town limits — including 25 made by Flock Safety
Documented cameras
25 tagged Flock Safety
Statewide rank
of 566 cities and towns
Per 1,000 residents
pop. 33,430
Per sq mi
17.0 sq mi
Live camera map
Where the Cameras Are
Every documented ALPR camera location inside Brownsburg's incorporated limits (26 points), refreshed nightly. Click any marker to suggest a correction.
Faded, dashed markers are cameras within about 5 miles of Brownsburg but outside its limits. They're shown for context only and are not included in the count of 26.
Camera locations © OpenStreetMap contributors (the dataset behind DeFlock.me); city boundary from US Census cartographic files. Only cameras inside Brownsburg's incorporated boundary are counted here — cameras on nearby unincorporated roads appear in the Hendricks County report. See every Indiana camera on the statewide map, or download coordinates for every point from our datasets.
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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 Brownsburg.
| Agency | Type | Vendor |
|---|---|---|
| Brownsburg Police Department | Police | Flock Safety |
Statewide context
How Brownsburg Compares
| 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 |
| Brownsburg (#22) | 26 | 0.8 | 1.5 |
| Indiana statewide | 3,529 | — | — |
Cities and towns ranked near Brownsburg: Clarksville (27) · Avon (26) · Franklin (26) · Valparaiso (26). See all 566 cities and towns ranked or the full statewide and 50-state figures in our live datasets.
Elsewhere in Hendricks County: Avon (26) · Plainfield (22) · Pittsboro (6) · Danville (3) · Lizton (3) · Amo (0) · Clayton (0) · Coatesville (0) · North Salem (0) · Stilesville (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 Brownsburg 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.
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 Brownsburg?
Indiana has no statewide rules for license plate readers. Add your name and tell your legislators that Brownsburg residents want limits on retention, access, and oversight.
Community
Get Involved in Brownsburg
Local organizing, news coverage, and public records — all submitted by residents like you and reviewed before publishing.
Local Groups
No local groups in Brownsburg are listed yet. If you're organizing around surveillance and privacy here, yours could be the first — countywide groups are listed on the Hendricks County report.
In the News
Local coverage of license plate surveillance here, submitted by residents.
Public Records
Contracts, FOIA responses, council votes, and policies submitted by residents.
Common questions
Frequently Asked Questions
Data and Methods
Camera counts and locations are every OpenStreetMap node tagged
man_made=surveillance with surveillance:type=ALPR inside
Brownsburg's incorporated boundary, refreshed nightly at midnight (US Eastern)
via the Overpass API and assigned to the town 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.