Flock & ALPR Cameras in Morton, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 26 automated license plate readers in and around Morton — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 25 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Morton, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 24 of them sit inside Morton itself.
The rest sit in East Peoria (1).
22 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (22). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Morton in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 14:58 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Morton
The readers mapped around Morton break down as 25 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- North Morton Avenue — 5 readers
- West Birchwood Street — 3 readers
- South Main Street — 2 readers
- Veterans Road — 2 readers
- West Jefferson Street — 2 readers
- West Queenwood Road — 1 reader
- East Queenwood Road — 1 reader
- South Fourth Avenue — 1 reader
- East Jefferson Street — 1 reader
- East Jackson Street — 1 reader
- Harding Road — 1 reader
- West Jackson Street — 1 reader
+ 4 more streets and roads mapped around Morton — all on the live map above.
Morton IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Morton IL PD runs 26 cameras of its own, has logged 56 plate-database searches, has captured 175,081 vehicle records. Its network connects to 478 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Adams County IL SO, Addison IL PD, Antioch IL PD, Arcola IL PD, Arlington Heights IL PD, Arthur IL PD, Athens IL PD, Auburn IL PD.
Morton in the Tazewell County picture
Tazewell County has 106 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #181 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 8.4% nationally. That’s across 130,555 residents and 2,205 road miles. By road density that is 0.05 cameras per road mile, in the top 12.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 25 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (22).
What’s watching Morton
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 Morton — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Morton (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Morton
What you can do in Morton
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 Morton
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).