Flock & ALPR Cameras in Mattoon, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 19 automated license plate readers in and around Mattoon — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 19 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Mattoon, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 15 of them sit inside Mattoon itself.
The rest sit in Paradise (1).
3 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 24 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Mattoon
The readers mapped around Mattoon break down as 17 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Lakeland Boulevard — 6 readers
- Charleston Avenue — 2 readers
- Charleston Avenue East — 2 readers
- Dewitt Avenue — 1 reader
- Route 45 — 1 reader
- East County Road 250 North — 1 reader
- East County Road 1000 North — 1 reader
- Route 121 — 1 reader
- Route 16 — 1 reader
- South 33rd Street — 1 reader
- Old State Road — 1 reader
Mattoon IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Mattoon IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 93 other agencies.
Mattoon in the Coles County picture
Coles County has 31 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #296 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 13.8% nationally. That’s across 46,689 residents and 1,778 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 31.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 18 traffic.
Camera activity around Mattoon, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Mattoon. Latest change logged Aug 22, 2026.
What’s watching Mattoon
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 Mattoon — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Mattoon (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Mattoon
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 Mattoon
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).