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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Belvidere, Illinois

Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around Belvidere — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

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8
Reported cameras nearby
#284
of 636 Illinois cities tracked
0.1%
of Illinois’s reported cameras
Live camera map 8 reported cameras around Belvidere, 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 Belvidere

No new reports near Belvidere in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:14 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Belvidere

The readers mapped around Belvidere break down as 6 Flock Safety, 2 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Feb 2026.

  • Genoa Road — 2 readers
  • U.S. Grant Memorial Highway — 1 reader
  • South Appleton Road — 1 reader
  • Dodge Drive — 1 reader
  • Logan Avenue — 1 reader
  • Gateway Center Drive — 1 reader
  • North State Street — 1 reader

Belvidere IL PD and the sharing network

Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Belvidere IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 66 other agencies.

Belvidere in the Boone County picture

Boone County has 14 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,134 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 53,316 residents and 596 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 26% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 8 traffic.

What’s watching Belvidere

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

What you can do in Belvidere

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 Belvidere

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