Flock & ALPR Cameras in Diamond, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 10 automated license plate readers in and around Diamond — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 10 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Diamond, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Diamond itself.
The rest sit in Braidwood (4).
6 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Diamond in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 16:19 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Diamond
The readers mapped around Diamond break down as 10 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Mar 2026.
- West Coal City Road — 6 readers
- East Division Street — 1 reader
- North Division Street — 1 reader
- North English Street — 1 reader
- East Pine Bluff Road — 1 reader
Diamond 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 10 traffic.
What’s watching Diamond
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 Diamond — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Diamond (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Diamond
- Black Diamond license plate readers help recover four vehicles , assist in homicide investigation
- Black Diamond looks to install license plate readers on roads
- Clearview Federal Credit Union wins multiple Diamond Awards from the Credit Union National Association
What you can do in Diamond
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 Diamond
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).