Flock & ALPR Cameras in Coal Valley, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around Coal Valley — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 8 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Coal Valley, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 5 of them sit inside Coal Valley itself.
The rest sit in Moline (1), Orion (1).
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Coal Valley in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Coal Valley
The readers mapped around Coal Valley break down as 8 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Feb 2026.
- US 150 — 3 readers
- 1st Street — 2 readers
- West 1st Avenue — 1 reader
- West 3rd Street — 1 reader
- West 4th Avenue — 1 reader
Coal Valley IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Coal Valley IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 47 other agencies.
Coal Valley 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 7 traffic.
What’s watching Coal Valley
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 Valley — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Coal Valley (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 Valley
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 Valley
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).