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Dubuque, by camera type.
Dubuque: 36 plate readers mapped. Nearby: Cedar Rapids 79, Iowa City 33, Marshalltown 52 and Ames 39.
Speed cameras in Dubuque
None listed in Dubuque. Nearest city program in Iowa: Marion, about 47 mi from the city line (running, checked Oct 23, 2026).
Red light cameras in Dubuque
None listed in Dubuque. Nearest city program in Iowa: Marion, about 47 mi from the city line (running, as of Oct 2024), not yet on this map.
License plate readers in Dubuque
36 plate readers are on the map in Dubuque, and 21 of them carry the Flock Safety tag. Most don't say who runs them. PHILLIP ALLEN WIEMANN is tagged on 1.
13 more plate readers are on agency lists (Iowa Department of Transportation, Traffic Operations and Safety Bureau), counted apart.
First-mapped dates here run from Jan 25, 2025 to Dec 15, 2025. All 36 were first mapped in 2025, with 17 in February alone.
The EFF's Atlas of Surveillance lists Dubuque Police Department as an agency that uses plate readers.
Who can search plate reads in Dubuque
The Dubuque Police Department’s transparency portal does not list who can search its plate reads (Oct 14, 2026). Its portal says it keeps each read for 30 days.
Dubuque Police Department
- Agencies on its posted sharing list
- Not stated
- Keeps each read for
- 30 days
- Plate readers its portal lists
- 22
- Agencies whose reads it can search
- 159
Its transparency portal, as of Oct 14, 2026 · See its sharing lists, as of Oct 14, 2026
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Portal figures and sharing lists: EyesOnFlock (CC BY-SA 4.0), from Flock Safety transparency portals.
Traffic cameras in Dubuque
From Iowa Department of Transportation.
Camera tickets in Dubuque
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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.
- OpenStreetMap contributors: plate readers, 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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