Flock & ALPR Cameras in Manteno, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 16 automated license plate readers in and around Manteno — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 16 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Manteno, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 12 of them sit inside Manteno itself.
The rest sit in Bourbonnais (2), Bradley (1).
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 6 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Oct 6 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Manteno
The readers mapped around Manteno break down as 10 Flock Safety, 4 Genetec. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Nov 2025.
- East 9000N Road — 6 readers
- South Locust Street — 1 reader
- Quebec Drive — 1 reader
- North Locust Street — 1 reader
- Bourbonnais Parkway — 1 reader
- Section Line Road — 1 reader
- County Road East 241 North — 1 reader
- North 1000E Road — 1 reader
- Redwood Street — 1 reader
Manteno IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Manteno IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 29 other agencies.
Manteno in the Kankakee County picture
Kankakee County has 57 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #460 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 21.5% nationally. That’s across 106,833 residents and 1,557 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 16.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 8 traffic, 1 street.
What’s watching Manteno
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 Manteno — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Manteno (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Manteno
What you can do in Manteno
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 Manteno
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).