Flock & ALPR Cameras in Canton, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 9 automated license plate readers in and around Canton — 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 Canton, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 7 of them sit inside Canton itself.
The rest sit in Norris (1).
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Canton 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 Canton
The readers mapped around Canton break down as 9 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- IL 9 — 3 readers
- West Hickory Road — 2 readers
- South 5th Avenue — 1 reader
- East Linn Street — 1 reader
- IL 78 — 1 reader
- East Chestnut Street — 1 reader
Canton IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Canton IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 98 other agencies.
Canton in the Fulton County picture
Fulton County has 14 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #677 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 33,259 residents and 1,378 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 43.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 7 traffic.
What’s watching Canton
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 Canton — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Canton (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Canton
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 Canton
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).