Flock & ALPR Cameras in Freeport, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 22 automated license plate readers in and around Freeport — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 19 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Freeport
The readers mapped around Freeport break down as 13 Flock Safety, 5 of unrecorded make, 3 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- U.S. Grant Memorial Highway — 6 readers
- IL 26 — 2 readers
- South Adams Avenue — 2 readers
- West South Street — 2 readers
- West Fairgrounds Road — 1 reader
- West Stephenson Street — 1 reader
- North Greenfield Drive — 1 reader
- South Walnut Road — 1 reader
- South Walnut Avenue — 1 reader
- Stephenson County — 1 reader
- West Lincoln Boulevard — 1 reader
- East Stephenson Street — 1 reader
+ 1 more streets and roads mapped around Freeport — all on the live map above.
Freeport IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Freeport IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 83 other agencies.
Freeport in the Stephenson County picture
Stephenson County has 23 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #482 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 22.5% nationally. That’s across 44,042 residents and 1,168 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 29.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 21 traffic.
Camera activity around Freeport, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Freeport. Latest change logged Sep 5, 2026.
What’s watching Freeport
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 Freeport — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Freeport (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Freeport
What you can do in Freeport
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.
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Cameras near Freeport
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).