Flock & ALPR Cameras in Auburn, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Auburn — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 12 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Auburn, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Auburn itself.
The rest sit in Chatham (4).
4 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (4). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
7 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 Auburn in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 07:13 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Auburn
The readers mapped around Auburn break down as 12 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2023; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- IL 4;US 66 Hist — 3 readers
- State Route 4 — 2 readers
- Kennedy Road — 1 reader
- Main Street — 1 reader
- Gilreath Road — 1 reader
- Gordon Drive — 1 reader
- West Walnut Street — 1 reader
- West Jackson Street — 1 reader
- East Loami Road — 1 reader
Auburn IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Auburn IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 21 other agencies.
Auburn in the Sangamon County picture
Sangamon County has 169 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #154 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 7.2% nationally. That’s across 195,217 residents and 2,258 road miles. By road density that is 0.07 cameras per road mile, in the top 7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 12 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (4).
What’s watching Auburn
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 Auburn — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Auburn (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Auburn
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 Auburn
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).