Flock & ALPR Cameras in Sesser, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around Sesser — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Oct 6 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Sesser
The readers mapped around Sesser break down as 3 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- County Highway 23 — 1 reader
- IL 154 — 1 reader
- Perry County — 1 reader
Sesser in the Franklin County picture
Franklin County has 12 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #971 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 37,541 residents and 1,154 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 42.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 3 traffic.
What’s watching Sesser
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 Sesser — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Sesser (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Sesser
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 Sesser
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).