Flock & ALPR Cameras in Vandalia, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Vandalia — 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 Vandalia, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 2 of them sit inside Vandalia itself.
The rest sit in Shafter (1), Shobonier (1).
2 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Vandalia in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:13 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Vandalia
The readers mapped around Vandalia break down as 6 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- West Gallatin Street — 1 reader
- US 40 — 1 reader
- North Kennedy Boulevard — 1 reader
- Hyw 51 N — 1 reader
- Veterans Parkway — 1 reader
- State Road 185 — 1 reader
Vandalia IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Vandalia IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 88 other agencies.
Vandalia in the Fayette County picture
Fayette County has 7 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #937 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 21,380 residents and 1,890 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 68.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 6 traffic.
Camera activity around Vandalia, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Vandalia. Latest change logged Aug 14, 2026.
What’s watching Vandalia
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 Vandalia — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Vandalia (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Vandalia
- ISP Installing More Automated License Plate Readers On Chicago Area Expressways
- License plate reading cameras proliferate across Illinois
What you can do in Vandalia
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 Vandalia
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).