Flock & ALPR Cameras in DeKalb, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 26 automated license plate readers in and around DeKalb — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 26 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of DeKalb, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 25 of them sit inside DeKalb itself.
The rest sit in Sycamore (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near DeKalb in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:27 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in DeKalb
The readers mapped around DeKalb break down as 16 Genetec, 9 Flock Safety, 1 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- North Annie Glidden Road — 4 readers
- Market Square Drive — 4 readers
- West Hillcrest Drive — 3 readers
- South Annie Glidden Road — 2 readers
- Sycamore Road — 2 readers
- North 1st Street — 2 readers
- East Hillcrest Drive — 1 reader
- West Taylor Street — 1 reader
- South Malta Road — 1 reader
- Devonaire Parkway — 1 reader
- DeKalb Avenue — 1 reader
- Oakland Drive — 1 reader
+ 3 more streets and roads mapped around DeKalb — all on the live map above.
DeKalb in the DeKalb County picture
DeKalb County has 60 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #378 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 17.6% nationally. That’s across 100,512 residents and 984 road miles. By road density that is 0.06 cameras per road mile, in the top 10% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 25 traffic, 1 entrance.
Camera activity around DeKalb, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for DeKalb. Latest change logged Sep 4, 2026.
What’s watching DeKalb
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 DeKalb — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to DeKalb (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around DeKalb
- In the minutes: Dekalb meeting, automated license plate (Oct 5)
- Candidate Q&A: DeKalb County Commission District 2
- Candidate Q&A: DeKalb County Commission District 3
- Get the Flock out of DeKalb
What you can do in DeKalb
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 DeKalb
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).