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Springfield, by camera type.
Springfield: 127 plate readers mapped. Nearby: Decatur 130, Pekin 41, Bloomington 52 and East Peoria 27.
Speed cameras in Springfield
None listed in Springfield. Nearest city program in Illinois: Chicago, about 158 mi from the city line (running, as of Oct 2026).
2 speed or red light cameras are on the map, counted apart from official lists.
Red light cameras in Springfield
None listed in Springfield. Nearest city program in Illinois: Granite City, about 63 mi from the city line (running, checked Oct 23, 2026), not yet on this map.
License plate readers in Springfield
127 plate readers are on the map in Springfield, and 125 of them carry the Flock Safety tag. Most don't say who runs them.
First-mapped dates here run from Jul 14, 2023 to Oct 24, 2026. 70 of the 127 were first mapped in 2023, with 28 in September alone.
The EFF's Atlas of Surveillance lists 3 agencies based in Springfield that use plate readers, among them Springfield Police Department.
Who can search plate reads in Springfield
The Springfield Police Department’s transparency portal does not list who can search its plate reads (Oct 14, 2026). Its portal says it keeps each read for 30 days.
Springfield Police Department
- Agencies on its posted sharing list
- Not stated
- Keeps each read for
- 30 days
- Plate readers its portal lists
- 141
- Agencies whose reads it can search
- 80
Its transparency portal, as of Oct 14, 2026 · See its sharing lists, as of Oct 14, 2026
Get one summary email a month on new plate readers in Springfield
Portal figures and sharing lists: EyesOnFlock (CC BY-SA 4.0), from Flock Safety transparency portals.
Traffic cameras in Springfield
From Illinois Department of Transportation.
Camera tickets in Springfield
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Know when cameras in Springfield change.
Free email alerts for cameras on your routes that start issuing tickets. One summary email a month.
- In your monthly summary: the day a camera near you starts issuing tickets
- 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, speed and red light cameras, 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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