Flock & ALPR Cameras in Saint Elmo, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around Saint Elmo — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 4 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Saint Elmo, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Saint Elmo itself.
The rest sit in Brownstown (1), St. Elmo (1).
2 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 Saint Elmo in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:11 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Saint Elmo
The readers mapped around Saint Elmo break down as 4 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- East Cumberland Road — 2 readers
- West Cumberland Road — 1 reader
- County Road 2400 E — 1 reader
Saint Elmo in the Fayette County picture
Fayette County has 7 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #937 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 21,380 residents and 1,890 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 68.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 4 traffic.
Camera activity around Saint Elmo, last 30 days
1 newly reported, 2 removed in our hourly change log for Saint Elmo. Latest change logged Sep 5, 2026.
What’s watching Saint Elmo
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 Saint Elmo — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Saint Elmo (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Saint Elmo
What you can do in Saint Elmo
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 Saint Elmo
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).