Flock & ALPR Cameras in Coal City, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Coal City — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 26 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Coal City
The readers mapped around Coal City break down as 1 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Jun 2026.
- North Jugtown Road — 1 reader
Coal City in the Grundy County picture
Grundy County has 43 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #179 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 8.3% nationally. That’s across 52,920 residents and 1,447 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 21.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 1 traffic.
What’s watching Coal City
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 Coal City — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Coal City (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Coal City
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 Coal City
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).