Flock & ALPR Cameras in Grandview, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 26 automated license plate readers in and around Grandview — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 26 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Grandview, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Grandview itself.
The rest sit in Springfield (22).
22 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (18), Lowe's (4). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
4 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 26 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Grandview
The readers mapped around Grandview break down as 25 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety, Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Jul 2023; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- South Dirksen Parkway — 3 readers
- North Dirksen Parkway — 3 readers
- East Sangamon Avenue — 2 readers
- Clear Lake Avenue — 2 readers
- Woodland Acres — 2 readers
- Atlanta Street — 2 readers
- Walton Drive — 2 readers
- IL 29 — 1 reader
- Springfield — 1 reader
- South Grand Avenue East — 1 reader
- Sam's Place — 1 reader
- Old Route 36 — 1 reader
+ 4 more streets and roads mapped around Grandview — all on the live map above.
Grandview in the Sangamon County picture
Sangamon County has 169 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #154 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 7.2% nationally. That’s across 195,217 residents and 2,258 road miles. By road density that is 0.07 cameras per road mile, in the top 7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 25 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (17), Lowe's (4).
What’s watching Grandview
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 Grandview — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Grandview (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Grandview
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 Grandview
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).