Flock & ALPR Cameras in Herrin, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 9 automated license plate readers in and around Herrin — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 9 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Herrin, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 6 of them sit inside Herrin itself.
The rest sit in Colp (1).
2 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 24 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Herrin
The readers mapped around Herrin break down as 8 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Herrin Road — 3 readers
- North 23rd Street — 1 reader
- South Park Avenue — 1 reader
- North Park Avenue — 1 reader
- East Stotlar Street — 1 reader
- South 27th Street — 1 reader
Herrin IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Herrin IL PD runs 12 cameras of its own, has logged 55 plate-database searches, has captured 104,426 vehicle records. Its network connects to 1,275 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Acworth GA PD, Ada County ID SO, Adams County IL SO, Adams County WI SO, Addison IL PD, Adrian MI PD, Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA), Alabaster AL PD.
Herrin in the Williamson County picture
Williamson County has 55 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #173 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 8% nationally. That’s across 66,902 residents and 1,163 road miles. By road density that is 0.05 cameras per road mile, in the top 12.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 5 traffic.
Camera activity around Herrin, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Herrin. Latest change logged Aug 19, 2026.
What’s watching Herrin
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 Herrin — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Herrin (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Herrin
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 Herrin
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).