Flock & ALPR Cameras in Altamont, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 3 automated license plate readers in and around Altamont — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 4 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Altamont, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 2 of them sit inside Altamont itself.
The rest sit in Beecher City (1), Edgewood (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Altamont in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 21:56 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Altamont
The readers mapped around Altamont break down as 4 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- Lincoln Drive — 1 reader
- Farina Road — 1 reader
- IL 37 — 1 reader
- West Poplar Street — 1 reader
Altamont in the Effingham County picture
Effingham County has 25 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #240 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 11.2% nationally. That’s across 34,505 residents and 1,467 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 32.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 4 traffic.
What’s watching Altamont
These aren’t red-light cameras. Automated license plate readers like Flock Safety’s photograph every plate that passes, log the time and place, and store it in a searchable database that’s often shared far beyond Altamont — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Altamont (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Altamont
Ask who approved these cameras, how long plate data is kept, and who it’s shared with. File a public records request, raise it at a council meeting, and see the full playbook on Take Action. Fighting this locally? Join or start a chapter and we’ll amplify you.
Not sure what one looks like? See photographs of installed cameras before you go looking.
Cameras near Altamont
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).