Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lake of the Woods, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 11 automated license plate readers in and around Lake of the Woods — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 11 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Lake of the Woods, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Lake of the Woods itself.
The rest sit in Mahomet (11).
5 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (4), Mahomet Police Department (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Lake of the Woods in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 00:35 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Lake of the Woods
The readers mapped around Lake of the Woods break down as 11 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety, Mahomet Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- South Prairieview Road — 3 readers
- East Oak Street — 2 readers
- County Road 525 East — 2 readers
- North Prairieview Road — 1 reader
- Prairie View Road — 1 reader
- Churchill Road — 1 reader
- County Road 2175 North — 1 reader
Lake of the Woods in the Champaign County picture
Champaign County has 145 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #258 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 12% nationally. That’s across 206,098 residents and 1,815 road miles. By road density that is 0.08 cameras per road mile, in the top 6.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 9 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (4), Mahomet Police Department (1).
What’s watching Lake of the Woods
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 Lake of the Woods — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Lake of the Woods (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Lake of the Woods
What you can do in Lake of the Woods
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 Lake of the Woods
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).