Flock & ALPR Cameras in Farmer City, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around Farmer City — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 4 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Farmer City, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Farmer City itself.
The rest sit in De Witt (1).
2 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 18 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Farmer City
The readers mapped around Farmer City break down as 2 Flock Safety, 1 Flock, 1 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Jul 2025; the most recent in Mar 2026.
- US 150 — 2 readers
- IL 54 — 1 reader
- East Clinton Avenue — 1 reader
Farmer City IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Farmer City IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 86 other agencies.
Farmer City in the De Witt County picture
De Witt County has 5 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #953 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 15,461 residents and 1,536 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 70.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 3 traffic.
What’s watching Farmer City
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 Farmer City — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Farmer City (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Farmer City
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 Farmer City
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).