Flock & ALPR Cameras in Fairview Heights, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 22 automated license plate readers in and around Fairview Heights — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 22 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Fairview Heights, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 15 of them sit inside Fairview Heights itself.
The rest sit in O'Fallon (5), Swansea (2).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (1), The Home Depot (1). 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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- Sep 26 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 10 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
- Sep 10 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Fairview Heights
The readers mapped around Fairview Heights break down as 14 Flock Safety, 4 Motorola Solutions, 3 Genetec. Named operators in the reports: The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- North Illinois Street — 3 readers
- Market Place — 3 readers
- Malinda Drive — 2 readers
- Auto Court — 2 readers
- West Highway 50 — 2 readers
- I 64;US 50 — 2 readers
- Beau Gon Drive — 1 reader
- New Car Drive — 1 reader
- Sullivan Drive — 1 reader
- Saint Clair Avenue — 1 reader
- Frank Scott Parkway West — 1 reader
- Ludwig Drive — 1 reader
+ 1 more streets and roads mapped around Fairview Heights — all on the live map above.
Fairview Heights in the St. Clair County picture
St. Clair County has 73 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,059 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 254,777 residents and 2,454 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 21.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 16 traffic. Operators named on the record: The Home Depot (1).
Camera activity around Fairview Heights, last 30 days
4 newly reported in our hourly change log for Fairview Heights. Latest change logged Sep 10, 2026.
What’s watching Fairview Heights
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 Fairview Heights — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Fairview Heights (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Fairview Heights
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Fairview Heights, IL
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Fairview Heights, IL
- On the agenda: Fairview Heights meeting — LPR CAMERA (Jul 15)
- On the agenda: Fairview Heights meeting — LPR CAMERA (Jun 10)
What you can do in Fairview Heights
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 Fairview Heights
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).