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Cameras in Council Bluffs, IA
26 mapped plate readers, 53 traffic cameras and a red light camera program in Council Bluffs.
Plate readers © OpenStreetMap contributors · © OpenMapTiles
Council Bluffs, by camera type.
Council Bluffs: 26 plate readers mapped. Nearby: Sioux City 28, West Des Moines 69, Urbandale 30 and Altoona 61.
Speed cameras in Council Bluffs
None listed in Council Bluffs. Nearest city program in Iowa: Sioux City, about 78 mi from the city line (running, checked Oct 23, 2026).
3 speed or red light cameras are on the map, counted apart from official lists.
Red light cameras in Council Bluffs
Council Bluffs runs a red light camera program (running, checked Oct 24, 2026), not yet on this map.
- Red light cameras · Running (checked Oct 24, 2026) City of Council Bluffs, Red Light Photo Enforcement Program ↗ · current status not dated
The law, in short:
Local ordinance; 2024 state law requires Iowa DOT permits.
License plate readers in Council Bluffs
26 plate readers are on the map in Council Bluffs, and 26 of them carry the Flock Safety tag. Most don't say who runs them.
1 more plate reader is on agency lists (Iowa Department of Transportation, Traffic Operations and Safety Bureau), counted apart.
First-mapped dates here run from Dec 6, 2025 to Jul 30, 2026. 25 of the 26 were first mapped in 2026, with 20 in February alone.
The EFF's Atlas of Surveillance lists Council Bluffs Police Department as an agency that uses plate readers.
Who can search plate reads in Council Bluffs
80 agencies can search reads from the Council Bluffs Police Department’s plate readers, by its posted sharing list (Oct 14, 2026). Its portal says it keeps each read for 30 days.
Council Bluffs Police Department
- Agencies on its posted sharing list
- 80
- Other organizations on its list
- 3
- Keeps each read for
- 30 days
- Plate readers its portal lists
- 26
- Agencies whose reads it can search
- 63
Its transparency portal, as of Oct 13, 2026 · See its sharing lists, as of Oct 14, 2026
Get one summary email a month on new plate readers in Council Bluffs
Portal figures and sharing lists: EyesOnFlock (CC BY-SA 4.0), from Flock Safety transparency portals.
Traffic cameras in Council Bluffs
From Iowa Department of Transportation.
Camera tickets in Council Bluffs
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- What plate readers keep, and who runs them
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156,883 cameras listed or mapped so far.
Sources and updates
How this page was made: CamsAhead writes each page type once, then fills it with this place's data from the sources below.
- City of Council Bluffs, Red Light Photo Enforcement Program: red light camera program, running, checked Oct 24, 2026
- OpenStreetMap contributors: plate readers, speed and red light cameras, data as of Nov 7, 2026; ODbL 1.0
- EFF Atlas of Surveillance: agencies that use plate readers, data as of Aug 2026; CC BY 4.0
- Iowa Department of Transportation, Traffic Operations and Safety Bureau: Plate reader locations: Iowa Department of Transportation (CC BY 4.0), list as of January 2026. Read November 7, 2026.
- Iowa Department of Transportation: Camera locations: Iowa Department of Transportation (CC BY 4.0). Read November 7, 2026.
- US Census Bureau: city boundary (cartographic file 2025)
Plate reader points are mapped by OpenStreetMap volunteers (data as of November 7, 2026).
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