Flock & ALPR Cameras in Sparta, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 7 automated license plate readers in and around Sparta — 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 Sparta, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 4 of them sit inside Sparta itself.
The rest sit in Coulterville (2), Pinckneyville (1).
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Sparta in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 10:26 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Sparta
The readers mapped around Sparta break down as 4 Flock Safety, 3 Genetec, 1 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in May 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- South Main Street — 2 readers
- East Braodway Street — 1 reader
- IL 154 — 1 reader
- North Market Street — 1 reader
- West Broadway Street — 1 reader
- Nashville Road — 1 reader
- South Saint Louis Street — 1 reader
Sparta in the Randolph County picture
Randolph County has 2 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,914 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 30,142 residents and 1,103 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 81.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 8 traffic.
Camera activity around Sparta, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Sparta. Latest change logged Aug 28, 2026.
What’s watching Sparta
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 Sparta — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Sparta (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Sparta
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Sparta, IL
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Sparta, IL
What you can do in Sparta
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 Sparta
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).