Flock & ALPR Cameras in Spring Valley, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 6 automated license plate readers in and around Spring Valley — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 6 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Spring Valley, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 5 of them sit inside Spring Valley itself.
The rest sit in McNabb (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
Need this city’s camera data? Custom extracts are free for researchers, journalists and advocates. Ask for it.
No new reports near Spring Valley in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 13:25 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Spring Valley
The readers mapped around Spring Valley break down as 3 Flock Safety, 3 Genetec. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- IL 89 — 1 reader
- South Spalding Street — 1 reader
- North Spalding Street — 1 reader
- West Dakota Street — 1 reader
- East Dakota Street — 1 reader
- County Road 1300 N — 1 reader
Spring Valley IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Spring Valley IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 64 other agencies.
Spring Valley in the Bureau County picture
Bureau County has 25 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #214 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 10% nationally. That’s across 33,027 residents and 3,294 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 50.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 6 traffic.
What’s watching Spring Valley
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 Spring Valley — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Spring Valley (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Spring Valley
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 Spring Valley
← All Illinois cameras, counties & cities
Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).