Flock & ALPR Cameras in Saint Joseph, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Saint Joseph — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 2 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Saint Joseph, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Saint Joseph itself.
The rest sit in St. Joseph (1), Urbana (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Saint Joseph in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 14:59 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Saint Joseph
The readers mapped around Saint Joseph break down as 2 Flock Safety, 1 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- I 74 — 1 reader
- Grand Avenue — 1 reader
- Peters Drive — 1 reader
Saint Joseph in the Champaign County picture
Champaign County has 145 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #258 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 12% nationally. That’s across 206,098 residents and 1,815 road miles. By road density that is 0.08 cameras per road mile, in the top 6.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 3 traffic.
What’s watching Saint Joseph
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 Joseph — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Saint Joseph (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Saint Joseph
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 Saint Joseph
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).