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Champaign, by camera type.
Champaign: 98 plate readers mapped. Nearby: Rantoul 27, Danville 25, Decatur 130 and Bloomington 52.
Speed cameras in Champaign
None listed in Champaign. Nearest city program in Illinois: Chicago, about 106 mi from the city line (running, as of Oct 2026).
Red light cameras in Champaign
None listed in Champaign. Nearest city program in Illinois: South Chicago Heights, about 95 mi from the city line (running, checked Oct 23, 2026), not yet on this map.
License plate readers in Champaign
98 plate readers are on the map in Champaign, and 86 of them carry the Flock Safety tag. 61 of 98 say who runs them. Champaign Police Department is tagged on 58.
First-mapped dates here run from Oct 18, 2023 to Oct 18, 2026. 52 of the 98 were first mapped in 2025, with 34 in August alone.
The EFF's Atlas of Surveillance lists Champaign Police Department and Champaign County Sheriff's Office as agencies that use plate readers.
Who can search plate reads in Champaign
5 agencies can search reads from the Champaign Police Department’s plate readers, by its posted sharing list (Oct 14, 2026). Its portal says it keeps each read for 30 days.
Champaign Police Department
- Agencies on its posted sharing list
- 5
- Keeps each read for
- 30 days
- Plate readers its portal lists
- 85
- Agencies whose reads it can search
- 155
Its transparency portal, as of Oct 13, 2026 · See its sharing lists, as of Oct 14, 2026
Get one summary email a month on new plate readers in Champaign
Portal figures and sharing lists: EyesOnFlock (CC BY-SA 4.0), from Flock Safety transparency portals.
Traffic cameras in Champaign
From Illinois Department of Transportation.
Camera tickets in Champaign
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Know when cameras in Champaign change.
Free email alerts for cameras on your routes that start issuing tickets. One summary email a month.
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- New cameras mapped or reported near you
- What plate readers keep, and who runs them
- Your street, your distance, the camera types you pick
156,883 cameras listed or mapped so far.
Sources and updates
How this page was made: CamsAhead writes each page type once, then fills it with this place's data from the sources below.
- OpenStreetMap contributors: plate readers, data as of Nov 7, 2026; ODbL 1.0
- EFF Atlas of Surveillance: agencies that use plate readers, data as of Aug 2026; CC BY 4.0
- Illinois Department of Transportation: Camera locations: Illinois DOT, CC BY-SA 2.0. Read November 7, 2026.
- US Census Bureau: city boundary (cartographic file 2025)
Plate reader points are mapped by OpenStreetMap volunteers (data as of November 7, 2026).
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