Flock & ALPR Cameras in Upper Alton, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 40 automated license plate readers in and around Upper Alton — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 40 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Upper Alton, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Upper Alton itself.
The rest sit in Alton (35), Godfrey (2).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
3 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 27 Genetec camera newly reported
- Sep 27 Genetec camera newly reported
- Sep 27 Genetec camera newly reported
- Sep 13 Genetec camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Upper Alton
The readers mapped around Upper Alton break down as 15 Motorola Solutions, 10 Flock Safety, 9 Genetec. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Humbert Road — 6 readers
- Brown Street — 6 readers
- College Avenue — 5 readers
- Homer M Adams Parkway — 5 readers
- Alton — 3 readers
- Seminary Street — 3 readers
- Buckmaster Lane — 3 readers
- Oakwood Road — 1 reader
- Muny Vista Drive — 1 reader
- Locust Avenue — 1 reader
Upper Alton in the Madison County picture
Madison County has 95 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #858 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 264,631 residents and 2,309 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 15.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 24 traffic, 7 street, 1 commercial. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (1).
Camera activity around Upper Alton, last 30 days
10 newly reported in our hourly change log for Upper Alton. Latest change logged Sep 3, 2026.
What’s watching Upper Alton
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 Upper Alton — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Upper Alton (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Upper Alton
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Upper Alton, IL
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Upper Alton, IL
- 6 new license plate readers reported around Upper Alton, IL
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Upper Alton, IL
What you can do in Upper Alton
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.
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Cameras near Upper Alton
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).