Flock & ALPR Cameras in Bradley, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 28 automated license plate readers in and around Bradley — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 29 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Bradley, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 13 of them sit inside Bradley itself.
The rest sit in Kankakee (8), Bourbonnais (4).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (2). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
4 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 7 Axis Communications camera newly reported
- Sep 11 Axis Communications camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Bradley
The readers mapped around Bradley break down as 23 Flock Safety, 5 Axis Communications. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- North Hobbie Avenue — 3 readers
- East Armour Road — 3 readers
- North Arthur Burch Drive — 3 readers
- Kinzie Avenue — 3 readers
- Kennedy Drive — 2 readers
- West Brookmont Boulevard — 2 readers
- East 1000N Road — 1 reader
- Washington Avenue — 1 reader
- Ken Hayes Drive — 1 reader
- South Kinzie Avenue — 1 reader
- East 4000N Road — 1 reader
- East 2000N Road — 1 reader
+ 6 more streets and roads mapped around Bradley — all on the live map above.
Bradley IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Bradley IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 24 other agencies.
Bradley in the Kankakee County picture
Kankakee County has 57 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #460 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 21.5% nationally. That’s across 106,833 residents and 1,557 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 16.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 26 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (2).
Camera activity around Bradley, last 30 days
4 newly reported in our hourly change log for Bradley. Latest change logged Sep 11, 2026.
What’s watching Bradley
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 Bradley — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Bradley (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Bradley
What you can do in Bradley
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 Bradley
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).