Flock & ALPR Cameras in Swansea, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 17 automated license plate readers in and around Swansea — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 17 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Swansea, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 6 of them sit inside Swansea itself.
The rest sit in Belleville (9), Shiloh (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Swansea in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 19:23 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Swansea
The readers mapped around Swansea break down as 9 Flock Safety, 8 Genetec. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- North Belt West — 4 readers
- Belleville Crossing Street — 3 readers
- West Main Street — 3 readers
- Hartman Lane — 2 readers
- North Belt East — 1 reader
- North Illinois Street — 1 reader
- Fullerton Road — 1 reader
- Frank Scott Parkway — 1 reader
- Old Collinsville Road — 1 reader
Swansea in the St. Clair County picture
St. Clair County has 73 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,059 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 254,777 residents and 2,454 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 21.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 17 traffic.
Camera activity around Swansea, last 30 days
5 newly reported in our hourly change log for Swansea. Latest change logged Aug 17, 2026.
What’s watching Swansea
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 Swansea — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Swansea (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Swansea
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Swansea, IL
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Swansea, IL
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Swansea, IL
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Swansea, IL
What you can do in Swansea
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 Swansea
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).