Flock & ALPR Cameras in Glen Carbon, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 12 automated license plate readers in and around Glen Carbon — 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 Glen Carbon, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 10 of them sit inside Glen Carbon itself.
The rest sit in Edwardsville (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Glen Carbon in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Glen Carbon
The readers mapped around Glen Carbon break down as 4 Flock Safety, 4 Genetec, 4 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- South State Route 157 — 3 readers
- Timberwolfe Drive — 2 readers
- Junction Drive — 1 reader
- South State Route 159 — 1 reader
- Tealbrook Court — 1 reader
- Whiteside Road — 1 reader
- West Main Street — 1 reader
- Nickel Plate Trail — 1 reader
- MCT Bluff Trail — 1 reader
Glen Carbon IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Glen Carbon IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 81 other agencies.
Glen Carbon 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 10 traffic, 2 pedestrians.
Camera activity around Glen Carbon, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Glen Carbon. Latest change logged Aug 17, 2026.
What’s watching Glen Carbon
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 Glen Carbon — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Glen Carbon (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Glen Carbon
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Glen Carbon, IL
- Glen Carbon trustees vote yes on no parking signs , 2 more license plate cameras
- Glen Carbon to add more license plate reader cameras
What you can do in Glen Carbon
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 Glen Carbon
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).