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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Ashland, Illinois

Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Ashland — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 2 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Ashland, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Ashland itself.

The rest sit in Tallula (1).

1 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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Reported cameras nearby
#576
of 636 Illinois cities tracked
0.1%
of Illinois’s reported cameras
Live camera map 2 reported cameras around Ashland, Illinois
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Ashland

No new reports near Ashland in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 23:02 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Ashland

The readers mapped around Ashland break down as 2 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Jun 2026.

  • IL 125 — 1 reader
  • IL 123 — 1 reader

Ashland in the Cass County picture

Cass County has 10 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #200 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 9.3% nationally. That’s across 12,826 residents and 605 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 33.1% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (1).

What’s watching Ashland

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 Ashland — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Ashland (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

What you can do in Ashland

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.

Cameras near Ashland

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).