Flock & ALPR Cameras in Arcola, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Arcola — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 5 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Arcola, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 2 of them sit inside Arcola itself.
The rest sit in Humboldt (1).
2 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Arcola in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 18:09 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Arcola
The readers mapped around Arcola break down as 5 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Mar 2026.
- East Springfield Road — 1 reader
- N County Road 1575 E — 1 reader
- County Road 275 North — 1 reader
- United States Route 45 — 1 reader
- US 45 — 1 reader
Arcola IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Arcola IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 20 other agencies.
Arcola in the Douglas County picture
Douglas County has 13 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #301 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 14% nationally. That’s across 19,686 residents and 935 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 36.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 5 traffic.
What’s watching Arcola
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 Arcola — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Arcola (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Arcola
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 Arcola
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).