Flock & ALPR Cameras in Kewanee, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 6 automated license plate readers in and around Kewanee — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 8 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Kewanee, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 3 of them sit inside Kewanee itself.
The rest sit in Sheffield (1).
4 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 Kewanee in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 13:25 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Kewanee
The readers mapped around Kewanee break down as 8 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- US 34 — 2 readers
- West Railroad Street — 1 reader
- US 6 — 1 reader
- Kentville Road — 1 reader
- North Main Street — 1 reader
- US 34;IL 78 — 1 reader
- North 1025th Avenue — 1 reader
Kewanee IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Kewanee IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 74 other agencies.
Kewanee in the Henry County picture
Henry County has 15 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,001 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 48,948 residents and 1,487 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 43.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 8 traffic.
What’s watching Kewanee
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 Kewanee — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Kewanee (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Kewanee
- Kewanee council members, mayor support Flock camera use
- Survey shows strong public opposition to ALPR/Flock cameras in Kewanee
- Take our survey: ALPR and Flock cameras in public spaces
- Flock cameras helped Kewanee Police catch juvenile car theft suspects
What you can do in Kewanee
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 Kewanee
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).