Flock & ALPR Cameras in Harristown, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 3 automated license plate readers in and around Harristown — 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 Harristown, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Harristown itself.
The rest sit in Illiopolis (1).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Illiopolis Police Department (2). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
2 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Harristown in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 18:10 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Harristown
The readers mapped around Harristown break down as 4 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Illiopolis Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Dye Road — 1 reader
- Old Route 36 — 1 reader
- US 36 — 1 reader
- Mount Auburn Road — 1 reader
Harristown 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 4 traffic. Operators named on the record: Illiopolis Police Department (2).
What’s watching Harristown
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 Harristown — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Harristown (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Harristown
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 Harristown
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).