Flock & ALPR Cameras in Villa Grove, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Villa Grove — 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 Villa Grove, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 3 of them sit inside Villa Grove itself.
The rest sit in Camargo (1).
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Villa Grove in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 19:53 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Villa Grove
The readers mapped around Villa Grove break down as 5 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in May 2026; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- East County Road 1450 North — 2 readers
- North Sycamore Street — 1 reader
- County Road 1650 E — 1 reader
- County Road 1650 East — 1 reader
Villa Grove IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Villa Grove IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 15 other agencies.
Villa Grove in the Douglas County picture
Douglas County has 13 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #301 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 14% nationally. That’s across 19,686 residents and 935 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 36.4% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 5 traffic.
What’s watching Villa Grove
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 Villa Grove — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Villa Grove (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Villa Grove
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 Villa Grove
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).