Flock & ALPR Cameras in Crystal Lawns, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 35 automated license plate readers in and around Crystal Lawns — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 35 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Crystal Lawns, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Crystal Lawns itself.
The rest sit in Joliet (17), Plainfield (7), Crest Hill (6), Shorewood (3), Romeoville (2).
6 of them name an operator in the record: Plainfield Police (6). 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 Crystal Lawns in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 16:21 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Crystal Lawns
The readers mapped around Crystal Lawns break down as 29 Flock Safety, 6 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Plainfield Police. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- I 55 — 6 readers
- Plainfield Road — 5 readers
- Renwick Road — 3 readers
- Essington Road — 3 readers
- Weber Road — 2 readers
- Ingalls Avenue — 2 readers
- Joliet Road — 2 readers
- IL 59 — 2 readers
- Caton Farm Road — 2 readers
- Black Road — 1 reader
- Boulevard Place — 1 reader
- Drauden Road — 1 reader
+ 5 more streets and roads mapped around Crystal Lawns — all on the live map above.
Crystal Lawns 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 34 traffic. Operators named on the record: Plainfield Police (6).
Camera activity around Crystal Lawns, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Crystal Lawns. Latest change logged Aug 13, 2026.
What’s watching Crystal Lawns
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 Crystal Lawns — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Crystal Lawns (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Crystal Lawns
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 Crystal Lawns
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).