Flock & ALPR Cameras in Mendota, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 7 automated license plate readers in and around Mendota — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 7 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Mendota, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 5 of them sit inside Mendota itself.
The rest sit in Mendota Township (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 26 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Mendota
The readers mapped around Mendota break down as 6 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in May 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- East 2nd Road — 2 readers
- North 43rd Road — 2 readers
- North 4250th Road — 1 reader
- US 52;IL 251 — 1 reader
Mendota IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Mendota IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 90 other agencies.
Mendota in the LaSalle County picture
LaSalle County has 57 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #480 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 22.4% nationally. That’s across 109,049 residents and 2,345 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 25.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 6 traffic.
Camera activity around Mendota, last 30 days
1 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Mendota. Latest change logged Sep 8, 2026.
What’s watching Mendota
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 Mendota — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Mendota (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Mendota
What you can do in Mendota
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 Mendota
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).