Verified ALPR — vendor unconfirmed
Are there Flock cameras in Portage, Indiana?
Portage is watched — we just can't confirm by whom.
Are there Flock cameras in Portage, Indiana?
Our records document automated license plate reader use in Portage, Indiana recorded for Portage Police Department, but they do not establish Flock Safety as the vendor. Separately, 29 individual ALPR camera locations mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors fall inside the municipal boundary, 29 of them source-tagged Flock Safety.
- Agency
- Portage Police Department
- County
- Porter County
- Records on file
- 1
- Mapped cameras inside boundary
- 29
- Source-tagged Flock Safety
- 29
- Latest cited source
- 10/01/2017
- Database last updated
- 2026-08-07
What's on file
Agency
Portage Police Department
Agency type
Police
Jurisdiction
Municipal
County
Porter County
State
Indiana (IN)
Vendor
No verified record currently in our database
The Portage Police Department uses automated license plate readers.
Sources · record AOS007650
- NWI Times ↗10/01/2017
What this record does not say
These entries document that an agency has been reported to use ALPR technology. They do not establish camera counts, exact locations, cost, retention periods or sharing policies unless the linked source says so.
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Sources & records
Everything on this page traces back to the records below. Where a record carries no linked document, we say so instead of filling the gap.
Documented deployment records
- NWI Times ↗Portage Police Department · 10/01/2017 · record AOS007650
Deployment records come from the EFF Atlas of Surveillance ↗. Database last updated 2026-08-07.
Community-mapped camera locations
29 mapped camera points inside the Portage boundary, from OpenStreetMap contributors via the DeFlock ↗ dataset (ODbL). Each point links to its own OpenStreetMap record in the camera list on this page.
Camera points are matched to this municipality by point-in-polygon containment against US Census Bureau cartographic boundaries (2023) — the coordinate falls inside the municipal boundary. Containment is a statement about location only, never about ownership, operation, purchase or deployment.
Nearby documented deployments
Other Indiana communities with a record in our database — nearest by county first. Absence from this list is not evidence of absence.
- ChestertonVerified Flock
- HebronVerified Flock
- ValparaisoVerified Flock
- AlexandriaVerified Flock
- AndersonVerified Flock
- AngolaVerified Flock
- AuburnVerified Flock
- AvonVerified Flock
Camera counts, contract prices, retention and sharing policies are shown only where we found a primary source. Where they're missing, the information is not publicly verified — see the Flock Files for the documents we do have.
Data attribution
Portions of the surveillance deployment data on this site come from the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Atlas of Surveillance. atlasofsurveillance.org ↗ Are You Flocked? is independent and is not affiliated with the EFF or Flock Safety. Database last updated 2026-08-07.
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