Flock & ALPR Cameras in Mahomet, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 17 automated license plate readers in and around Mahomet — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 17 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Mahomet, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 11 of them sit inside Mahomet itself.
The rest sit in Mansfield (3).
6 of them name an operator in the record: Mahomet Police Department (5), Flock Safety (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
3 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 Mahomet in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:26 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Mahomet
The readers mapped around Mahomet break down as 16 Flock Safety, 1 Flock. Named operators in the reports: Mahomet Police Department, Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- US 150 — 3 readers
- County Road 300 E — 2 readers
- North Lombard Street — 2 readers
- County Highway 2 — 2 readers
- East State Street — 2 readers
- County Road 400 East — 1 reader
- Crowley Road — 1 reader
- North 1300 East Road — 1 reader
- South Mahomet Road — 1 reader
- East South Mahomet Road — 1 reader
- Turkey Farm Road — 1 reader
Mahomet IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Mahomet IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 35 other agencies.
Mahomet 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 16 traffic. Operators named on the record: Mahomet Police Department (5), Flock Safety (1).
Camera activity around Mahomet, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Mahomet. Latest change logged Aug 30, 2026.
What’s watching Mahomet
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 Mahomet — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Mahomet (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Mahomet
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Mahomet, IL
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Mahomet, IL
- Mahomet considering new, high-tech body cameras and additional license plate readers for police department
- Mahomet to consider adding more license - plate readers
What you can do in Mahomet
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 Mahomet
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).