Flock & ALPR Cameras in Belleville, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 15 automated license plate readers in and around Belleville — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 10 Genetec camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Belleville
The readers mapped around Belleville break down as 12 Flock Safety, 3 Genetec. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- East Main Street — 6 readers
- Lebanon Avenue — 2 readers
- Green Mount Commons Drive — 1 reader
- North Green Mount Road — 1 reader
- South Illinois Street — 1 reader
- Illinois Street — 1 reader
- Sherman Street — 1 reader
- Holly Drive — 1 reader
- Carlyle Avenue — 1 reader
Belleville in the St. Clair County picture
St. Clair County has 73 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,059 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 254,777 residents and 2,454 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 21.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 14 traffic.
Camera activity around Belleville, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Belleville. Latest change logged Sep 10, 2026.
What’s watching Belleville
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 Belleville — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Belleville (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Belleville
What you can do in Belleville
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.
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Cameras near Belleville
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).