Flock & ALPR Cameras in Ottawa, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 18 automated license plate readers in and around Ottawa — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Oct 4 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Ottawa
The readers mapped around Ottawa break down as 17 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Columbus Street — 2 readers
- East 17th Road — 2 readers
- 1st Avenue — 2 readers
- US 6 — 1 reader
- Courtney Street — 1 reader
- County Highway 55 — 1 reader
- US 6;IL 71 — 1 reader
- North 2703rd Road — 1 reader
- West Jackson Street — 1 reader
- River Edge Circle — 1 reader
- Dayton Road — 1 reader
- Ottawa Avenue — 1 reader
+ 2 more streets and roads mapped around Ottawa — all on the live map above.
Ottawa IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Ottawa IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 110 other agencies.
Ottawa 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 17 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (10).
What’s watching Ottawa
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 Ottawa — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Ottawa (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Ottawa
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Ottawa, IL
- On the agenda: Ottawa meeting — Flock Camera (Jan 8)
- Chicago-area trio's bond set at $500K each in Ottawa County break-ins
What you can do in Ottawa
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 Ottawa
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).