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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Sherman, Illinois

Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around Sherman — 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 Sherman, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 3 of them sit inside Sherman itself.

The rest sit in Springfield (2).

5 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (5). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.

3 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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Reported cameras nearby
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of 636 Illinois cities tracked
0.1%
of Illinois’s reported cameras
Live camera map 8 reported cameras around Sherman, Illinois
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Sherman

No new reports near Sherman in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:26 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Sherman

The readers mapped around Sherman break down as 8 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Jun 2026.

  • South Sherman Boulevard — 2 readers
  • North Peoria Road — 2 readers
  • North Walnut Street — 1 reader
  • North State Rt 29 — 1 reader
  • South Williamsville Road — 1 reader
  • East Andrew Road — 1 reader

Sherman IL PD and the sharing network

Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Sherman IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 89 other agencies.

Sherman in the Sangamon County picture

Sangamon County has 169 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #154 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 7.2% nationally. That’s across 195,217 residents and 2,258 road miles. By road density that is 0.07 cameras per road mile, in the top 7% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 8 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (5).

What’s watching Sherman

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 Sherman — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Sherman (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

What you can do in Sherman

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.

Cameras near Sherman

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).