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Decatur, by camera type.
Decatur: 130 plate readers mapped. Nearby: Springfield 127, Champaign 98, Bloomington 52 and Normal 46.
Speed cameras in Decatur
None listed in Decatur. Nearest city program in Illinois: Chicago, about 133 mi from the city line (running, as of Oct 2026).
Red light cameras in Decatur
None listed in Decatur. Nearest city program in Illinois: Granite City, about 90 mi from the city line (running, checked Oct 23, 2026), not yet on this map.
License plate readers in Decatur
130 plate readers are on the map in Decatur, and 127 of them carry the Flock Safety tag. Most don't say who runs them.
First-mapped dates here run from Sep 8, 2023 to Oct 26, 2026. 75 of the 130 were first mapped in 2025, with 52 in August alone.
The EFF's Atlas of Surveillance lists Decatur Police Department as an agency that uses plate readers.
Who can search plate reads in Decatur
453 agencies can search reads from the Decatur Police Department’s plate readers, by its posted sharing list (Oct 14, 2026). Its portal says it keeps each read for 30 days.
Decatur Police Department
- Agencies on its posted sharing list
- 453
- Other organizations on its list
- 5
- Keeps each read for
- 30 days
- Plate readers its portal lists
- 119
- Agencies whose reads it can search
- 143
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 Decatur
Portal figures and sharing lists: EyesOnFlock (CC BY-SA 4.0), from Flock Safety transparency portals.
Traffic cameras in Decatur
From Illinois Department of Transportation.
Camera tickets in Decatur
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- What plate readers keep, and who runs them
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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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