Flock & ALPR Cameras in Long Creek, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 1 automated license plate readers in and around Long Creek — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Long Creek in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:14 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Long Creek
The readers mapped around Long Creek break down as 1 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Feb 2026.
- US 36 — 1 reader
Long Creek in the Macon County picture
Macon County has 133 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #60 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 2.8% nationally. That’s across 102,591 residents and 1,521 road miles. By road density that is 0.09 cameras per road mile, in the top 5.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 1 traffic.
What’s watching Long Creek
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 Long Creek — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Long Creek (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Long Creek
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 Long Creek
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).