Flock & ALPR Cameras in Danville, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 27 automated license plate readers in and around Danville — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Oct 5 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Oct 5 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Danville
The readers mapped around Danville break down as 23 Flock Safety, 1 Flock. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- North Bowman Avenue — 2 readers
- East Voorhees Street — 2 readers
- East Main Street — 2 readers
- Lincoln Park Avenue — 2 readers
- County Road 1720 N — 1 reader
- Texas Avenue — 1 reader
- West Fairchild Street — 1 reader
- West English Street — 1 reader
- East Davis Street — 1 reader
- West Newell Road — 1 reader
- Boiling Springs Road — 1 reader
- East Fairchild Street — 1 reader
+ 8 more streets and roads mapped around Danville — all on the live map above.
Danville IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Danville IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 79 other agencies.
Danville in the Vermilion County picture
Vermilion County has 37 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #500 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 23.4% nationally. That’s across 73,179 residents and 2,887 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 38.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 24 traffic.
What’s watching Danville
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 Danville — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Danville (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Danville
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Danville, IL
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Danville, IL
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Danville, IL
- Several states accessed Danville license-plate data for ‘immigration’ reasons; Illinois cracking down
What you can do in Danville
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 Danville
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).