Flock & ALPR Cameras in Petersburg, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Petersburg — 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 Petersburg, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Petersburg itself.
The rest sit in Oakford (1).
3 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Petersburg in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 23:50 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Petersburg
The readers mapped around Petersburg break down as 5 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Mar 2026.
- IL 97 — 2 readers
- IL 97;IL 123 — 2 readers
- West Oakford Road — 1 reader
Petersburg IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Petersburg IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 33 other agencies.
Petersburg in the Menard County picture
Menard County has 9 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #225 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 10.5% nationally. That’s across 12,169 residents and 906 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 43.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 5 traffic.
What’s watching Petersburg
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 Petersburg — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Petersburg (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Petersburg
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 Petersburg
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).