Flock & ALPR Cameras in Cherry Valley, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 73 automated license plate readers in and around Cherry Valley — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 73 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Cherry Valley, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 21 of them sit inside Cherry Valley itself.
The rest sit in Rockford (45), Belvidere (4), Rockford Township (3).
6 of them name an operator in the record: Illinois State Police (4), [Lowes Home Improvement (Corporate Security] (2). 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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- Oct 5 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 25 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 25 License plate reader newly reported
- Sep 25 License plate reader newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
📷 11 new license plate readers just reported around Cherry Valley, IL. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #CherryValley
Where the cameras are in Cherry Valley
The readers mapped around Cherry Valley break down as 52 Flock Safety, 6 of unrecorded make, 3 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Illinois State Police, [Lowes Home Improvement (Corporate Security]. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2023; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- East State Street — 7 readers
- South Alpine Road — 6 readers
- South Perryville Road — 6 readers
- Jane Addams Memorial Tollway — 5 readers
- McFarland Road — 5 readers
- Newburg Road — 4 readers
- Harrison Avenue — 3 readers
- Argus Drive — 2 readers
- South Mall Drive — 2 readers
- Lyford Road — 2 readers
- Irene Road — 2 readers
- South Bell School Road — 1 reader
+ 16 more streets and roads mapped around Cherry Valley — all on the live map above.
Cherry Valley IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Cherry Valley IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 74 other agencies.
Cherry Valley in the Winnebago County picture
Winnebago County has 268 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #120 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 5.6% nationally. That’s across 283,289 residents and 1,719 road miles. By road density that is 0.16 cameras per road mile, in the top 2.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 41 traffic, 2 shop. Operators named on the record: Illinois State Police (4), [Lowes Home Improvement (Corporate Security] (2).
Camera activity around Cherry Valley, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Cherry Valley. Latest change logged Aug 23, 2026.
What’s watching Cherry Valley
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 Cherry Valley — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Cherry Valley (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Cherry Valley
- 11 new license plate readers reported around Cherry Valley, IL
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Cherry Valley, IL
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Cherry Valley, IL
What you can do in Cherry Valley
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 Cherry Valley
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).