Flock & ALPR Cameras in Kankakee, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 24 automated license plate readers in and around Kankakee — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 24 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Kankakee, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 21 of them sit inside Kankakee itself.
The rest sit in Aroma Park (1).
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 Kankakee in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 16:19 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Kankakee
The readers mapped around Kankakee break down as 13 Flock Safety, 11 Axis Communications. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- South Schuyler Avenue — 4 readers
- West Jeffery Street — 2 readers
- East Maple Street — 2 readers
- West Court Street — 2 readers
- River Road — 2 readers
- North Entrance Avenue — 1 reader
- East River Street — 1 reader
- North Schuyler Avenue — 1 reader
- Justice Way — 1 reader
- South 3000 East Road — 1 reader
- East Bourbonnais Street — 1 reader
- West Station Street — 1 reader
+ 5 more streets and roads mapped around Kankakee — all on the live map above.
Kankakee IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Kankakee IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 73 other agencies.
Kankakee in the Kankakee County picture
Kankakee County has 57 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #460 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 21.5% nationally. That’s across 106,833 residents and 1,557 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 16.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 22 traffic, 1 street.
Camera activity around Kankakee, last 30 days
8 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Kankakee. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.
What’s watching Kankakee
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 Kankakee — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Kankakee (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Kankakee
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Kankakee, IL
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Kankakee, IL
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Kankakee, IL
What you can do in Kankakee
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 Kankakee
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).