Flock & ALPR Cameras in Anna, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 7 automated license plate readers in and around Anna — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 7 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Anna, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 3 of them sit inside Anna itself.
The rest sit in Dongola (4).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Anna in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 10:25 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Anna
The readers mapped around Anna break down as 7 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2026; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Vienna Street — 1 reader
- Broad Street — 1 reader
- North East Front Street — 1 reader
- West Cross Street — 1 reader
- US 51 — 1 reader
- East Front Street — 1 reader
- Southeast Front Street — 1 reader
Anna in the Union County picture
Union County has 5 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,033 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 16,972 residents and 776 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 54.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 7 traffic.
Camera activity around Anna, last 30 days
3 newly reported, 2 removed in our hourly change log for Anna. Latest change logged Sep 4, 2026.
What’s watching Anna
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 Anna — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Anna (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Anna
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Anna, IL
- On the agenda: Channahon meeting — License Plate Reader (Oct 5)
- Champaign County uses cannabis tax money to fund Flock cameras
- Channahon officer on leave after being accused of misusing Flock cameras
What you can do in Anna
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 Anna
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).