Flock & ALPR Cameras in Braidwood, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 9 automated license plate readers in and around Braidwood — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 25 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Braidwood
The readers mapped around Braidwood break down as 8 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Feb 2026.
- West Kennedy Road — 2 readers
- East Reed Road — 2 readers
- North Division Street — 1 reader
- North Front Street — 1 reader
- Comet Drive — 1 reader
- East Main Street — 1 reader
Braidwood IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Braidwood IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 33 other agencies.
Braidwood in the Will County picture
Will County has 375 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #454 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 21.2% nationally. That’s across 698,450 residents and 3,042 road miles. By road density that is 0.12 cameras per road mile, in the top 3.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 8 traffic.
What’s watching Braidwood
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 Braidwood — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Braidwood (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Braidwood
- Bunnings defends facial recognition use, releases CCTV footage | Braidwood Times
- Bunnings breached privacy by using facial recognition in stores | Braidwood Times
- 'All you can eat': bold snake attacks stingray on NT riverbank | Braidwood Times
- Former Stingrays Caitlin Foord and Mary Fowler on fire for Matildas | Braidwood Times
What you can do in Braidwood
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 Braidwood
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).