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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Peoria Heights, Illinois

Volunteers have reported 17 automated license plate readers in and around Peoria Heights — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 18 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Peoria Heights, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Peoria Heights itself.

The rest sit in Peoria (16).

7 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (7). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.

2 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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Reported cameras nearby
#138
of 636 Illinois cities tracked
0.2%
of Illinois’s reported cameras
Live camera map 17 reported cameras around Peoria Heights, Illinois
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Peoria Heights
+0 this week +1 last 30 days
  • Sep 10 Flock Safety camera newly reported

Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.

Where the cameras are in Peoria Heights

The readers mapped around Peoria Heights break down as 18 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.

  • West War Memorial Drive — 4 readers
  • North Big Hollow Road — 3 readers
  • North State Route 91 — 2 readers
  • East Glen Avenue — 2 readers
  • North Karen Court — 1 reader
  • West Willow Knolls Drive — 1 reader
  • East Lake Avenue — 1 reader
  • East War Memorial Drive — 1 reader
  • West Glen Avenue — 1 reader
  • Glen Hollow — 1 reader
  • Spring Bay Road — 1 reader

Peoria Heights IL PD and the sharing network

Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Peoria Heights IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 22 other agencies.

Peoria Heights in the Peoria County picture

Peoria County has 85 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #582 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 179,831 residents and 1,540 road miles. By road density that is 0.06 cameras per road mile, in the top 11.2% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 11 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (7).

Camera activity around Peoria Heights, last 30 days

1 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Peoria Heights. Latest change logged Sep 10, 2026.

What’s watching Peoria Heights

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 Peoria Heights — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Peoria Heights (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

What you can do in Peoria Heights

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.

Cameras near Peoria Heights

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).