Flock & ALPR Cameras in Pekin, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 44 automated license plate readers in and around Pekin — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Need this city’s camera data? Custom extracts are free for researchers, journalists and advocates. Ask for it.
- Sep 23 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Pekin
The readers mapped around Pekin break down as 43 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Sheridan Road — 4 readers
- Pekin Park Bike Trail — 4 readers
- Broadway Street — 3 readers
- Court Street — 3 readers
- Derby Street — 3 readers
- Radio City Drive — 2 readers
- IL 9 — 2 readers
- North Parkway Drive — 2 readers
- Towerline Road — 2 readers
- Allentown Road — 2 readers
- South 2nd Street — 2 readers
- Veterans Drive — 2 readers
+ 10 more streets and roads mapped around Pekin — all on the live map above.
Pekin IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Pekin IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 30 other agencies.
Pekin 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 34 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (3).
Camera activity around Pekin, last 30 days
4 newly reported in our hourly change log for Pekin. Latest change logged Aug 28, 2026.
What’s watching Pekin
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 Pekin — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Pekin (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Pekin
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Pekin, IL
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Pekin, IL
What you can do in Pekin
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 Pekin
← All Illinois cameras, counties & cities
Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).