Flock & ALPR Cameras in Palestine, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Palestine — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 2 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Palestine, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Palestine itself.
The rest sit in Hutsonville (1).
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Palestine in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 20:42 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Palestine
The readers mapped around Palestine break down as 2 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in May 2026.
- IL 33 — 1 reader
- East Clover Street — 1 reader
Palestine in the Crawford County picture
Crawford County has 9 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #553 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 18,588 residents and 1,103 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 48.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic.
What’s watching Palestine
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 Palestine — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Palestine (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Palestine
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 Palestine
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).