Flock & ALPR Cameras in Benton, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 9 automated license plate readers in and around Benton — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 9 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Benton, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 5 of them sit inside Benton itself.
The rest sit in West City (4).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Benton in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 16:19 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Benton
The readers mapped around Benton break down as 9 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- West Main Street — 2 readers
- North Main Street — 2 readers
- Illinois Route 14 — 1 reader
- South Main Street — 1 reader
- East Main Street — 1 reader
- North Central Street — 1 reader
- Benton — 1 reader
Benton IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Benton IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 65 other agencies.
Benton in the Franklin County picture
Franklin County has 12 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #971 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 37,541 residents and 1,154 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 42.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 5 traffic.
Camera activity around Benton, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Benton. Latest change logged Aug 15, 2026.
What’s watching Benton
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 Benton — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Benton (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Benton
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 Benton
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).