Flock & ALPR Cameras in Normal, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 43 automated license plate readers in and around Normal — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 43 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Normal, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 39 of them sit inside Normal itself.
The rest sit in Bloomington (4).
27 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (27). 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 Normal in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:25 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Normal
The readers mapped around Normal break down as 32 Flock Safety, 11 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2023; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- East College Avenue — 4 readers
- Parkway Plaza Drive — 3 readers
- North Main Street — 2 readers
- West Raab Road — 2 readers
- Shepard Road — 2 readers
- Fort Jesse Road — 2 readers
- West College Avenue — 2 readers
- Airport Road — 2 readers
- Von Maur Drive — 2 readers
- South Linden Street — 2 readers
- Mall Drive — 2 readers
- East Vernon Avenue — 2 readers
+ 16 more streets and roads mapped around Normal — all on the live map above.
Normal IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Normal IL PD runs 58 cameras of its own, has logged 183 plate-database searches, has captured 366,026 vehicle records. Its network connects to 111 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Normal in the McLean County picture
McLean County has 106 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #354 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 16.5% nationally. That’s across 170,882 residents and 3,179 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 19% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 39 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (27).
What’s watching Normal
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 Normal — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Normal (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Normal
What you can do in Normal
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 Normal
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).