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Kankakee, by camera type.
Kankakee: 34 plate readers mapped. Nearby: Joliet 93, Orland Park 33, Romeoville 33 and Plainfield 42.
Speed cameras in Kankakee
None listed in Kankakee. Nearest city program in Illinois: Chicago, about 36 mi from the city line (running, as of Oct 2026).
Red light cameras in Kankakee
None listed in Kankakee. Nearest city program in Illinois: South Chicago Heights, about 25 mi from the city line (running, checked Oct 23, 2026), not yet on this map.
License plate readers in Kankakee
34 plate readers are on the map in Kankakee, and 14 of them carry the Flock Safety tag. Most don't say who runs them.
First-mapped dates here run from Dec 21, 2024 to Oct 31, 2026. 28 of the 34 were first mapped in 2026, with 11 in August alone.
The EFF's Atlas of Surveillance lists Kankakee County Sheriff's Office as an agency that uses plate readers.
Who can search plate reads in Kankakee
EyesOnFlock lists no transparency portal for the Kankakee Police Department (Oct 14, 2026). It posts no sharing list, so who can search reads from its cameras is not stated. The sharing lists of 146 agencies name it, so it can search their reads.
Kankakee Police Department
- Agencies on its posted sharing list
- Not stated
- Keeps each read for
- Not stated
- Agencies whose reads it can search
- 146
No transparency portal listed, Oct 14, 2026 · See its sharing lists, as of Oct 14, 2026
Get one summary email a month on new plate readers in Kankakee
Portal figures and sharing lists: EyesOnFlock (CC BY-SA 4.0), from Flock Safety transparency portals.
Traffic cameras in Kankakee
From Illinois Department of Transportation.
Camera tickets in Kankakee
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- What plate readers keep, and who runs them
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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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