City Surveillance Report · Updated August 18, 2026 · Refreshes nightly
Flock Safety & ALPR Cameras in Roanoke, Indiana
license plate reader cameras documented inside the town limits
Documented cameras
vendor tags pending
Statewide rank
of 566 cities and towns
Per 1,000 residents
pop. 1,796
Per sq mi
1.2 sq mi
Live camera map
Where the Cameras Are
Every documented ALPR camera location inside Roanoke's incorporated limits (0 points), refreshed nightly. Click any marker to suggest a correction.
Faded, dashed markers are cameras within about 5 miles of Roanoke but outside its limits. They're shown for context only and are not included in the count of 0.
Camera locations © OpenStreetMap contributors (the dataset behind DeFlock.me); city boundary from US Census cartographic files. Only cameras inside Roanoke's incorporated boundary are counted here — cameras on nearby unincorporated roads appear in the Huntington 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
No Roanoke agencies have been documented in the Atlas of Surveillance yet. Many agencies adopt Flock Safety and other ALPR systems without any public announcement — public records requests are often the only way residents find out.
Statewide context
How Roanoke Compares
| City / Town | Cameras | Per 1,000 residents | Per sq mi |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indianapolis | 568 | 0.6 | 1.6 |
| Carmel | 109 | 1.1 | 2.2 |
| Fort Wayne | 95 | 0.3 | 0.9 |
| Jeffersonville | 77 | 1.5 | 2.3 |
| Evansville | 71 | 0.6 | 1.5 |
| Roanoke (#473) | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Indiana statewide | 3,574 | — | — |
Cities and towns ranked near Roanoke: Roachdale (0) · Roann (0) · Rockport (0) · Rocky Ripple (0). See all 566 cities and towns ranked or the full statewide and 50-state figures in our live datasets.
Elsewhere in Huntington County: Huntington (4) · Markle (3) · Andrews (0) · Mount Etna (0) · Warren (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 Roanoke 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 Roanoke?
Indiana has no statewide rules for license plate readers. Add your name and tell your legislators that Roanoke residents want limits on retention, access, and oversight.
Community
Get Involved in Roanoke
Local organizing, news coverage, and public records — all submitted by residents like you and reviewed before publishing.
Local Groups
No local groups in Roanoke are listed yet. If you're organizing around surveillance and privacy here, yours could be the first — countywide groups are listed on the Huntington County report.
In the News
No news coverage is listed for Roanoke 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 Roanoke yet. Have a Flock contract, FOIA response, or policy document? Upload it for residents and journalists to find.
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
Roanoke'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.