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Are there Flock cameras in West Lafayette, Indiana?
Yep. West Lafayette is flocked.
Are there Flock cameras in West Lafayette, Indiana?
Yes. Public records in our database document Flock Safety automated license plate readers in West Lafayette, Indiana recorded for Purdue University Police Department and West Lafayette Police Department. Separately, 12 individual ALPR camera locations mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors fall inside the municipal boundary, 11 of them source-tagged Flock Safety.
- Agencies
- Purdue University Police Department and West Lafayette Police Department
- Vendor
- Flock Safety
- County
- Tippecanoe County
- Records on file
- 2
- Mapped cameras inside boundary
- 12
- Source-tagged Flock Safety
- 11
- Latest cited source
- 5/31/2022
- Database last updated
- 2026-08-07
What's on file
Agency
Purdue University Police Department
Agency type
Police
Jurisdiction
University
County
Tippecanoe County
State
Indiana (IN)
Vendor
No verified record currently in our database
The Purdue University Police Department installed six automated license plate readers on campus in 2022.
Sources · record AOS011205
- Journal and Courier ↗5/31/2022
- Purdue University ↗5/31/2022
- The Purdue Exponent ↗5/31/2022
Agency
West Lafayette Police Department
Agency type
Police
Jurisdiction
Municipal
County
Tippecanoe County
State
Indiana (IN)
Vendor
Flock Safety
As of April 2024, the West Lafayette Police Department operates three Flock Safety automated license plate readers. The agency stores ALPR data for 30 days.
Verified deployment detail
No primary sources on file yet
Cameras / readers
Not publicly verified
Contract price
Not publicly verified
Contract start
Not publicly verified
Contract end
Not publicly verified
Data retention
Not publicly verified
Data sharing documented
Not publicly verified
Date approved
Not publicly verified
ALPR policy
Not publicly verified
Contract / public record
Not publicly verified
Flock transparency portal
Not publicly verified
Every value above is transcribed from the linked document. Nothing is estimated or inferred, and claims circulating on social media are never published here. “Not publicly verified” means we have not found a reliable primary or reported source — never that the thing does not exist.
Sources · record AOS011206
- Flock Safety ↗
- The News & Observer ↗5/1/2024
- The News & Observer ↗5/1/2024
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
- Journal and Courier ↗Purdue University Police Department · 5/31/2022 · record AOS011205
- Purdue University ↗Purdue University Police Department · 5/31/2022 · record AOS011205
- The Purdue Exponent ↗Purdue University Police Department · 5/31/2022 · record AOS011205
- Flock Safety ↗West Lafayette Police Department · record AOS011206
- The News & Observer ↗West Lafayette Police Department · 5/1/2024 · record AOS011206
- The News & Observer ↗West Lafayette Police Department · 5/1/2024 · record AOS011206
Deployment records come from the EFF Atlas of Surveillance ↗. Database last updated 2026-08-07.
Community-mapped camera locations
12 mapped camera points inside the West Lafayette 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.
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- LafayetteVerified Flock
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- AndersonVerified Flock
- AngolaVerified Flock
- AuburnVerified Flock
- AvonVerified Flock
- BargersvilleVerified 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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