Flock & ALPR Cameras in Forsyth, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 15 automated license plate readers in and around Forsyth — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 15 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Forsyth, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 6 of them sit inside Forsyth itself.
The rest sit in Decatur (9).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Forsyth in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 21:32 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Forsyth
The readers mapped around Forsyth break down as 13 Flock Safety, 2 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Commerce Place Drive — 3 readers
- North Martin Luther King Jr Drive — 2 readers
- US 51 — 2 readers
- I 72 — 2 readers
- North Portage Place — 1 reader
- College Park Drive — 1 reader
- President Howard Brown Drive — 1 reader
- East Mound Road — 1 reader
- West Hickory Point Road — 1 reader
- North Woodford Street — 1 reader
Forsyth in the Macon County picture
Macon County has 133 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #60 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 2.8% nationally. That’s across 102,591 residents and 1,521 road miles. By road density that is 0.09 cameras per road mile, in the top 5.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 12 traffic.
Camera activity around Forsyth, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Forsyth. Latest change logged Aug 29, 2026.
What’s watching Forsyth
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 Forsyth — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Forsyth (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Forsyth
What you can do in Forsyth
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 Forsyth
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).