Flock & ALPR Cameras in Quincy, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 31 automated license plate readers in and around Quincy — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 11 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Quincy
The readers mapped around Quincy break down as 29 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Quincy Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Broadway Street — 6 readers
- US 24 — 4 readers
- Chestnut Street — 3 readers
- Gardner Expressway — 2 readers
- North 36th Street — 2 readers
- North 12th Street — 1 reader
- North 8th Street — 1 reader
- South 36th Street — 1 reader
- North 24th Street — 1 reader
- Madison Street — 1 reader
- Payson Road — 1 reader
- Bonansinga Drive — 1 reader
+ 5 more streets and roads mapped around Quincy — all on the live map above.
Quincy IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Quincy IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 110 other agencies.
Quincy in the Adams County picture
Adams County has 35 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #453 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 21.2% nationally. That’s across 65,166 residents and 2,903 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 39.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 4 traffic. Operators named on the record: Quincy Police Department (2).
Camera activity around Quincy, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Quincy. Latest change logged Sep 11, 2026.
What’s watching Quincy
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 Quincy — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Quincy (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Quincy
What you can do in Quincy
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.
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Cameras near Quincy
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).