Flock & ALPR Cameras in Bloomington, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 54 automated license plate readers in and around Bloomington — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 54 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Bloomington, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 51 of them sit inside Bloomington itself.
The rest sit in Normal (2), Downs (1).
27 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (27). 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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No new reports near Bloomington in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:10 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Bloomington
The readers mapped around Bloomington break down as 33 of unrecorded make, 21 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2024; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- East Empire Street — 7 readers
- Cira Drive — 6 readers
- East Oakland Avenue — 4 readers
- West Market Street — 3 readers
- South Veterans Parkway — 2 readers
- South Main Street — 2 readers
- North Williamsburg Drive — 2 readers
- East Washington Street — 2 readers
- North Veterans Parkway — 1 reader
- South Eldorado Road — 1 reader
- Oak Valley Road — 1 reader
- Empire Street Frontage Road — 1 reader
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Bloomington — all on the live map above.
Bloomington IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Bloomington IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 139 other agencies.
Bloomington in the McLean County picture
McLean County has 106 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #354 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 16.5% nationally. That’s across 170,882 residents and 3,179 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 19% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 51 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (27).
What’s watching Bloomington
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 Bloomington — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Bloomington (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Bloomington
- Bloomington, Hennepin Co. Sheriff sued over facial recognition
- New chapter on the network: Shut The Flock Off BloNo (Bloomington-Normal, Illinois)
What you can do in Bloomington
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 Bloomington
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).