Flock & ALPR Cameras in Gardner, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 12 automated license plate readers in and around Gardner — 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 Gardner, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 4 of them sit inside Gardner itself.
The rest sit in Mazon (5).
3 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 Gardner in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:10 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Gardner
The readers mapped around Gardner break down as 12 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- West Grand Ridge Road — 3 readers
- IL 53 — 2 readers
- West Gardner Road — 2 readers
- East Gardner Road — 2 readers
- IL 47 — 2 readers
- West Route 17 — 1 reader
Gardner 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 12 traffic.
What’s watching Gardner
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 Gardner — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Gardner (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Gardner
What you can do in Gardner
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.
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Cameras near Gardner
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).