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Cameras in Marshalltown, IA
1 speed camera location and 52 mapped plate readers in Marshalltown.
Plate readers © OpenStreetMap contributors · © OpenMapTiles
Marshalltown, by camera type.
Marshalltown: 52 plate readers mapped. Nearby: Ames 39, Altoona 61, Urbandale 30 and West Des Moines 69.
Speed cameras in Marshalltown
From Iowa Department of Transportation, Traffic and Safety Bureau, all on the map.
- Speed cameras · Running (as of Apr 2026) 1 location listed by Iowa Department of Transportation, Traffic and Safety Bureau City of Marshalltown ↗
The law, in short:
Local ordinance; 2024 state law requires Iowa DOT permits.
Red light cameras in Marshalltown
None listed in Marshalltown. Nearest city program in Iowa: Waterloo, about 34 mi from the city line (running, checked Oct 23, 2026), not yet on this map.
License plate readers in Marshalltown
52 plate readers are on the map in Marshalltown, and 50 of them carry the Flock Safety tag. 30 of 52 say who runs them. Marshalltown Police Department is tagged on 30.
14 more plate readers are on agency lists (Iowa Department of Transportation, Traffic Operations and Safety Bureau), counted apart.
First-mapped dates here run from Feb 2, 2025 to Oct 23, 2026. 31 of the 52 were first mapped in 2025, with 23 in February alone.
The EFF's Atlas of Surveillance lists Marshalltown Police Department as an agency that uses plate readers.
Who can search plate reads in Marshalltown
EyesOnFlock lists no transparency portal for the Marshalltown Police Department (Oct 14, 2026). It posts no sharing list, so who can search reads from its cameras is not stated. The sharing lists of 78 agencies name it, so it can search their reads.
Marshalltown Police Department
- Agencies on its posted sharing list
- Not stated
- Keeps each read for
- Not stated
- Agencies whose reads it can search
- 78
No transparency portal listed, Oct 14, 2026 · See its sharing lists, as of Oct 14, 2026
Get one summary email a month on new plate readers in Marshalltown
Portal figures and sharing lists: EyesOnFlock (CC BY-SA 4.0), from Flock Safety transparency portals.
Traffic cameras in Marshalltown
No traffic camera feed is listed for Marshalltown yet.
Camera tickets in Marshalltown
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- New cameras mapped or reported near you
- 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 Marshalltown: speed camera program, running, as of Apr 2026
- 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, Traffic and Safety Bureau: 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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