Flock & ALPR Cameras in Sheridan, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 1 automated license plate readers in and around Sheridan — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 1 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Sheridan, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Sheridan itself.
The rest sit in Mission Township (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Sheridan 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 Sheridan
The readers mapped around Sheridan break down as 1 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Jan 2026.
- IL 71 — 1 reader
Sheridan in the LaSalle County picture
LaSalle County has 57 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #480 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 22.4% nationally. That’s across 109,049 residents and 2,345 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 25.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 1 traffic.
What’s watching Sheridan
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 Sheridan — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Sheridan (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Sheridan
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 Sheridan
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).