Flock & ALPR Cameras in Southern View, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 37 automated license plate readers in and around Southern View — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 44 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Southern View, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 2 of them sit inside Southern View itself.
The rest sit in Springfield (31), Woodside (6).
27 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (27). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
5 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 26 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 26 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Southern View
The readers mapped around Southern View break down as 38 Flock Safety, 2 Motorola Solutions, 2 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jul 2023; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- South 11th Street — 5 readers
- South Taylor Avenue — 3 readers
- East Stanford Avenue — 3 readers
- East Stevenson Drive — 3 readers
- Broad Place — 2 readers
- West Stanford Avenue — 2 readers
- Chatham Road — 2 readers
- Toronto Road — 2 readers
- West Iron Bridge Road — 2 readers
- I 55 — 2 readers
- Legacy Pointe Drive — 2 readers
- Shepherd Road — 2 readers
+ 12 more streets and roads mapped around Southern View — all on the live map above.
Southern View IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Southern View IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 53 other agencies.
Southern View 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 38 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (27).
Camera activity around Southern View, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Southern View. Latest change logged Aug 20, 2026.
What’s watching Southern View
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 Southern View — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Southern View (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Southern View
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Southern View, IL
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Southern View, IL
What you can do in Southern View
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 Southern View
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).