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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Rochelle, Illinois

Volunteers have reported 13 automated license plate readers in and around Rochelle — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 14 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Rochelle, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 10 of them sit inside Rochelle itself.

The rest sit in Alto Township (1), Flagg Township (1), Steward (1), Willow Creek Township (1).

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

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13
Reported cameras nearby
#204
of 636 Illinois cities tracked
0.2%
of Illinois’s reported cameras
Live camera map 13 reported cameras around Rochelle, 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 Rochelle

No new reports near Rochelle in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 21:32 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Rochelle

The readers mapped around Rochelle break down as 12 Flock Safety, 2 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.

  • IL 251 — 3 readers
  • Lincoln Avenue — 2 readers
  • State Route 251 — 2 readers
  • Lincoln Highway — 1 reader
  • East Creston Road — 1 reader
  • Steward Road — 1 reader
  • Intermodal Drive — 1 reader
  • Rochelle — 1 reader
  • Perry Road — 1 reader
  • US 30 — 1 reader

Rochelle IL PD and the sharing network

Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Rochelle IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 14 other agencies.

Rochelle in the Ogle County picture

Ogle County has 34 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #303 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 14.1% nationally. That’s across 51,536 residents and 1,411 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 25.6% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 12 traffic, 1 police, 1 town.

What’s watching Rochelle

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

What you can do in Rochelle

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 Rochelle

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