Flock & ALPR Cameras in Crest Hill, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 12 automated license plate readers in and around Crest Hill — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 12 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Crest Hill, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 4 of them sit inside Crest Hill itself.
The rest sit in Joliet (8).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (2). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Crest Hill in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 19:22 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Crest Hill
The readers mapped around Crest Hill break down as 12 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Ingalls Avenue — 3 readers
- Plainfield Road — 2 readers
- Marlboro Lane — 2 readers
- Ruby Street — 1 reader
- North Raynor Avenue — 1 reader
- North Larkin Avenue — 1 reader
- Arbor Lane — 1 reader
- Theodore Street — 1 reader
Crest Hill IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Crest Hill IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 70 other agencies.
Crest Hill 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 12 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (2).
What’s watching Crest Hill
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 Crest Hill — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Crest Hill (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Crest Hill
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Hillcrest, IL
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Hillcrest, IL
What you can do in Crest Hill
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 Crest Hill
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).