Flock & ALPR Cameras in Carbon Cliff, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Carbon Cliff — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 5 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Carbon Cliff, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 2 of them sit inside Carbon Cliff itself.
The rest sit in Silvis (3).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Carbon Cliff in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 01:10 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Carbon Cliff
The readers mapped around Carbon Cliff break down as 4 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Jul 2025; the most recent in Mar 2026.
- Crosstown Avenue — 1 reader
- 18th Avenue — 1 reader
- Colona Road — 1 reader
- North 2nd Avenue — 1 reader
- 10th Street — 1 reader
Carbon Cliff in the Rock Island County picture
Rock Island County has 76 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #468 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 21.9% nationally. That’s across 142,995 residents and 1,328 road miles. By road density that is 0.06 cameras per road mile, in the top 10.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 4 traffic.
What’s watching Carbon Cliff
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 Carbon Cliff — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Carbon Cliff (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Carbon Cliff
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.
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Cameras near Carbon Cliff
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).