Flock & ALPR Cameras in Ladd, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Ladd — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 5 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Ladd, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 2 of them sit inside Ladd itself.
The rest sit in Peru (2), Spring Valley (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 22 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Ladd
The readers mapped around Ladd break down as 4 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- County Road 3300 E — 1 reader
- South Main Street — 1 reader
- 1700 North Avenue — 1 reader
- 1600 North Avenue — 1 reader
Ladd IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Ladd IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 75 other agencies.
Ladd in the Bureau County picture
Bureau County has 25 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #214 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 10% nationally. That’s across 33,027 residents and 3,294 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 50.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 3 traffic.
What’s watching Ladd
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 Ladd — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Ladd (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Ladd
What you can do in Ladd
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 Ladd
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).