Flock & ALPR Cameras in Poplar Grove, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 1 automated license plate readers in and around Poplar Grove — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 1 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Poplar Grove, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Poplar Grove itself.
The rest sit in Caledonia Township (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Poplar Grove in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 12:07 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Poplar Grove
The readers mapped around Poplar Grove break down as 1 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Jan 2026.
- Orth Road — 1 reader
Poplar Grove in the Boone County picture
Boone County has 14 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,134 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 53,316 residents and 596 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 26% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 1 traffic.
What’s watching Poplar Grove
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 Poplar Grove — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Poplar Grove (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Poplar Grove
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 Poplar Grove
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).