Flock & ALPR Cameras in Carthage, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Carthage — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 2 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Carthage, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Carthage itself.
The rest sit in Taylor Township (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Carthage in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 11:09 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Carthage
The readers mapped around Carthage break down as 2 of unrecorded make. Every report here dates to Oct 2025.
- Park Drive — 1 reader
- Woodland Drive — 1 reader
Carthage in the Ogle County picture
Ogle County has 34 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #303 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 14.1% nationally. That’s across 51,536 residents and 1,411 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 25.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 entrance.
What’s watching Carthage
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 Carthage — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Carthage (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Carthage
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 Carthage
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).