Flock & ALPR Cameras in Hampton, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Hampton — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Hampton in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 13:01 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Hampton
The readers mapped around Hampton break down as 1 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Sep 2025.
- State Avenue — 1 reader
Hampton in the Rock Island County picture
Rock Island County has 76 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #468 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 21.9% nationally. That’s across 142,995 residents and 1,328 road miles. By road density that is 0.06 cameras per road mile, in the top 10.7% of counties nationally.
What’s watching Hampton
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 Hampton — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Hampton (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Hampton
- Stop the Camera! New Limits on Facial Recognition Technology for Interviews Take Effect in Illinois on January 1, 2020 | Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
- Interim mayor halts installation of license plate reader in Easthampton
- Daily Hampshire Gazette - Westhampton residents raise privacy concerns about PD request for license plate recognition camera
- Westhampton residents raise privacy concerns about PD request for license plate recognition camera
What you can do in Hampton
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 Hampton
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).