Flock & ALPR Cameras in South Beloit, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 7 automated license plate readers in and around South Beloit — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 21 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in South Beloit
The readers mapped around South Beloit break down as 4 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: [Rockton Police Department]. The first camera here was reported in May 2025; the most recent in Jan 2026.
- Gardner Street — 2 readers
- Blackhawk Boulevard — 1 reader
- US 51 — 1 reader
South Beloit in the Winnebago County picture
Winnebago County has 268 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #120 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 5.6% nationally. That’s across 283,289 residents and 1,719 road miles. By road density that is 0.16 cameras per road mile, in the top 2.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic, 2 police. Operators named on the record: [Rockton Police Department] (2).
What’s watching South Beloit
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 South Beloit — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to South Beloit (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in South Beloit
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 South Beloit
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).