Flock & ALPR Cameras in Bushnell, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around Bushnell — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Oct 6 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Bushnell
The readers mapped around Bushnell break down as 4 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Industrial Park Road — 1 reader
- IL 9;IL 41 — 1 reader
- East 2100th Street — 1 reader
- North 2400th Road — 1 reader
- IL 95 — 1 reader
Bushnell IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Bushnell IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 69 other agencies.
Bushnell in the McDonough County picture
McDonough County has 19 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #259 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 12.1% nationally. That’s across 27,102 residents and 1,885 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 43.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 5 traffic.
What’s watching Bushnell
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 Bushnell — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Bushnell (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Bushnell
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 Bushnell
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).