Flock & ALPR Cameras in Rock Falls, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around Rock Falls — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 8 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Rock Falls, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 6 of them sit inside Rock Falls itself.
The rest sit in Nelson Township (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Rock Falls in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 10:26 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Rock Falls
The readers mapped around Rock Falls break down as 8 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- 1st Avenue — 4 readers
- Dixon Avenue — 1 reader
- West Rock Falls Road — 1 reader
- US 30 — 1 reader
- Rock Island Road — 1 reader
Rock Falls IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Rock Falls IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 62 other agencies.
Rock Falls in the Whiteside County picture
Whiteside County has 26 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #584 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 55,192 residents and 1,403 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 30.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 8 traffic.
Camera activity around Rock Falls, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Rock Falls. Latest change logged Aug 22, 2026.
What’s watching Rock Falls
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 Rock Falls — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Rock Falls (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Rock Falls
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 Rock Falls
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).