Stop Government Surveillance: Pump the Brakes on ALPRs in Iowa
Last updated on November 13, 2025
Every day in Iowa, hundreds of Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) are taking hundreds of thousands of images of license plates of ordinary community residents—likely including you.
It's not that you're suspected of doing anything wrong, but your movements are being tracked and fed into a massive national database just in case. This means your location data is being accessed and used with little to no safeguards or regulation.
ALPRs are now in more than 39 communities in Iowa. And their numbers are growing. One of the companies that provides these cameras, Flock Safety, is making an aggressive sales pitch to Iowa law enforcement and city governments, convincing them to install these cameras in their communities to bring Big Brother-style government surveillance into the very communities they are charged with protecting and serving.
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