Community Record · Unofficial Hendricks Co., Indiana

Six agencies, six different records.

Same county, same vendor, same absence of state law. What each agency has put in writing varies enormously, and so does how much of it has been asked for.

Side by side

Agency Cameras Annual cost Use policy Sharing list Records request
Avon 26 mapped / 6 reported $15,000 Requested Not published Pending since July
Brownsburg 20 mapped / 16 contracted $40,000 None exists No portal Fulfilled
Danville 3 mapped Unknown Unknown No portal Denied, still open
Plainfield 22 mapped / 24 reported Flock plus $28,000 to a second vendor Lexipol 427 Published in full Fulfilled
County Sheriff 19 reported Unknown Unknown Not published Not filed yet
Pittsboro 5 mapped Unknown Unknown No portal Not filed yet
Lizton 2 mapped Unknown Unknown No portal Not filed yet

Mapped counts come from volunteers at deflock.me and reflect cameras physically located, which makes them a floor rather than an exact figure. Reported counts come from the agencies' own transparency portals. Where they disagree, both are shown rather than picking one.

Per capita, the small towns lead

TownCamerasPer 100k residents
Lizton2394.5
Pittsboro5116.6
Avon26105.1
Brownsburg2059.8
Plainfield2258.2
Danville323.9

A town of 500 with two cameras on its two roads is closer to comprehensive coverage than a suburb with twenty spread across a dozen arterials. Raw counts flatter the small towns. Per capita does not.

Open a town

26 mapped Avon
Five-year auto-renewing contract paid from the economic development fund. Use policy requested in July and still pending.
Request pending 20 mapped Brownsburg
Records produced in full and promptly, and they confirm there is no written policy. Billed under vehicle and equipment repairs.
Records in hand 3 mapped Danville
Denied on a commercial-purpose basis, then referred to the police department. Still open.
Request denied 22 mapped Plainfield
The only adopted policy, the only published sharing list, the highest hit rate, and a second camera vendor that surfaced through the records.
Records in hand 19 reported County Sheriff
Nearly half of every plate read counted in this county, and the least documented deployment on the list, because nobody has asked yet.
Unexamined

Pittsboro and Lizton no page yet

Neither town publishes a transparency portal, and nobody has filed a records request with either yet. What is known comes secondhand: both appear on Plainfield's published sharing lists, which puts their cameras inside the same national network as everyone else's.

Seven cameras between two small towns sounds trivial until you look at the per-capita column. Lizton has the highest rate in the county by a wide margin.

These two get pages when somebody sends documents. The request template works for any Indiana town, and residency is not required to file.