Flock & ALPR Cameras in Pecatonica, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Pecatonica — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 5 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Pecatonica, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 2 of them sit inside Pecatonica itself.
The rest sit in Leaf River Township (1), Pecatonica Township (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 Pecatonica in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 21:36 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Pecatonica
The readers mapped around Pecatonica break down as 5 Flock Safety, 2 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- West State Road — 2 readers
- North Pecatonica Road — 2 readers
- U.S. Grant Memorial Highway — 1 reader
- West Montague Road — 1 reader
- East 3rd Street — 1 reader
Pecatonica IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Pecatonica IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 74 other agencies.
Pecatonica in the Winnebago County picture
Winnebago County has 268 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #120 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 5.6% nationally. That’s across 283,289 residents and 1,719 road miles. By road density that is 0.16 cameras per road mile, in the top 2.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 6 traffic.
What’s watching Pecatonica
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 Pecatonica — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Pecatonica (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Pecatonica
What you can do in Pecatonica
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 Pecatonica
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).