Flock & ALPR Cameras in Champaign, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 99 automated license plate readers in and around Champaign — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 99 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Champaign, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 96 of them sit inside Champaign itself.
The rest sit in Urbana (1).
66 of them name an operator in the record: Champaign Police Department (59), Flock Safety (4), University of Illinois Police Department (2), University of Illinois (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
2 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 23 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Champaign
The readers mapped around Champaign break down as 86 Flock Safety, 8 of unrecorded make, 4 Genetec. Named operators in the reports: Champaign Police Department, Flock Safety, University of Illinois Police Department, University of Illinois. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2023; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- North Prospect Avenue — 9 readers
- West Bradley Avenue — 7 readers
- West Springfield Avenue — 5 readers
- North Neil Street — 4 readers
- West Church Street — 4 readers
- East Bradley Avenue — 4 readers
- Champaign — 4 readers
- West Marketview Drive — 3 readers
- East Washington Street — 3 readers
- East Kirby Avenue — 3 readers
- North Market Street — 3 readers
- Paula Drive — 3 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Champaign — all on the live map above.
Champaign IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Champaign IL PD runs 46 cameras of its own, has logged 466 plate-database searches, has captured 421,770 vehicle records. Its network connects to 377 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Adams County IL SO, Addison IL PD, Antioch IL PD, Arcola IL PD, Arlington Heights IL PD, Athens IL PD, Auburn IL PD, Aurora IL PD.
Champaign in the Champaign County picture
Champaign County has 145 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #258 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 12% nationally. That’s across 206,098 residents and 1,815 road miles. By road density that is 0.08 cameras per road mile, in the top 6.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 99 traffic, 1 bank. Operators named on the record: Champaign Police Department (59), Flock Safety (4), University of Illinois Police Department (2).
Camera activity around Champaign, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Champaign. Latest change logged Sep 4, 2026.
What’s watching Champaign
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 Champaign — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Champaign (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Champaign
- 4 license plate readers reported removed near Champaign, IL
- Champaign County uses cannabis tax money to fund Flock cameras
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Champaign, IL
- 6 new license plate readers reported around Champaign, IL
What you can do in Champaign
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 Champaign
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).