Flock & ALPR Cameras in South Pekin, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around South Pekin — 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 South Pekin, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside South Pekin itself.
The rest sit in Pekin (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near South Pekin in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 18:54 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in South Pekin
The readers mapped around South Pekin break down as 2 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Jun 2026.
- 5th Street — 2 readers
South Pekin in the Tazewell County picture
Tazewell County has 106 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #181 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 8.4% nationally. That’s across 130,555 residents and 2,205 road miles. By road density that is 0.05 cameras per road mile, in the top 12.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic.
What’s watching South Pekin
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 Pekin — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to South Pekin (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 Pekin
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 South Pekin
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).