Flock & ALPR Cameras in El Paso, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around El Paso — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near El Paso in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 18:52 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in El Paso
The readers mapped around El Paso break down as 5 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Mar 2026.
- West Main Street — 2 readers
- IL 251 — 2 readers
- East Main Street — 1 reader
El Paso IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, El Paso IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 28 other agencies.
El Paso in the Woodford County picture
Woodford County has 19 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #528 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 24.7% nationally. That’s across 38,348 residents and 1,286 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 35.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 1 traffic.
What’s watching El Paso
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 El Paso — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to El Paso (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in El Paso
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 El Paso
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).