Flock & ALPR Cameras in Edwardsville, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 31 automated license plate readers in and around Edwardsville — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 31 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Edwardsville, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 20 of them sit inside Edwardsville itself.
The rest sit in Glen Carbon (9).
2 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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On the agenda: Edwardsville Transportation Committee — Surveillance Camera (Oct 7)
Wednesday, October 7 — today · The full record → · Read the agenda ↗
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No new reports near Edwardsville in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:14 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Edwardsville
The readers mapped around Edwardsville break down as 20 Flock Safety, 6 Motorola Solutions, 3 Genetec. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Edwardsville Crossing Drive — 5 readers
- Whistle Stop Drive — 4 readers
- Goshen Road — 3 readers
- MCT Goshen Trail — 3 readers
- Harvard Drive — 2 readers
- Governors Parkway — 2 readers
- North Main Street — 2 readers
- Garvey Lane — 1 reader
- 5th Avenue — 1 reader
- Junction Drive — 1 reader
- North University Drive — 1 reader
- Edwardsville — 1 reader
+ 5 more streets and roads mapped around Edwardsville — all on the live map above.
Edwardsville IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Edwardsville IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 6 other agencies.
Edwardsville in the Madison County picture
Madison County has 95 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #858 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 264,631 residents and 2,309 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 15.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 24 traffic.
Camera activity around Edwardsville, last 30 days
4 newly reported in our hourly change log for Edwardsville. Latest change logged Sep 3, 2026.
What’s watching Edwardsville
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 Edwardsville — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Edwardsville (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Edwardsville
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Edwardsville, IL
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Edwardsville, IL
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Edwardsville, IL
- On the agenda: Edwardsville meeting — License Plate Reader (Nov 28)
What you can do in Edwardsville
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 Edwardsville
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).