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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Steeleville, Illinois

Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Steeleville — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 5 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Steeleville, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Steeleville itself.

The rest sit in Cutler (1), Willisville (1).

3 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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Reported cameras nearby
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of 636 Illinois cities tracked
0.1%
of Illinois’s reported cameras
Live camera map 5 reported cameras around Steeleville, Illinois
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Steeleville

No new reports near Steeleville in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 11:09 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Steeleville

The readers mapped around Steeleville break down as 5 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.

  • IL 150 — 2 readers
  • County Highway 4 — 1 reader
  • IL 4 — 1 reader
  • Shawneetown — 1 reader

Steeleville 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 5 traffic.

Camera activity around Steeleville, last 30 days

2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Steeleville. Latest change logged Aug 19, 2026.

What’s watching Steeleville

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 Steeleville — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Steeleville (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

The latest around Steeleville

What you can do in Steeleville

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.

Cameras near Steeleville

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).