Flock & ALPR Cameras in Malta, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 3 automated license plate readers in and around Malta — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 3 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Malta, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Malta itself.
The rest sit in Creston (1), Dement Township (1), Malta Township (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Malta in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 14:12 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Malta
The readers mapped around Malta break down as 2 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Apr 2026.
- IL 38 — 1 reader
- Malta Road — 1 reader
- Ronald Reagan Memorial Tollway — 1 reader
Malta in the DeKalb County picture
DeKalb County has 60 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #378 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 17.6% nationally. That’s across 100,512 residents and 984 road miles. By road density that is 0.06 cameras per road mile, in the top 10% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 3 traffic.
What’s watching Malta
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 Malta — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Malta (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Malta
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 Malta
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).