Flock & ALPR Cameras in Joliet, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 22 automated license plate readers in and around Joliet — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 10 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Joliet
The readers mapped around Joliet break down as 22 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Columbia Street — 2 readers
- Collins Street — 2 readers
- East Jackson Street — 2 readers
- McDonough Street — 2 readers
- North Henderson Avenue — 2 readers
- 4th Avenue — 2 readers
- Ruby Street — 1 reader
- Jackson Street — 1 reader
- Bridge Street — 1 reader
- Cass Street — 1 reader
- Plainfield Road — 1 reader
- Broadway Street — 1 reader
+ 4 more streets and roads mapped around Joliet — all on the live map above.
Joliet IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Joliet IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 91 other agencies.
Joliet 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 21 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (10).
Camera activity around Joliet, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Joliet. Latest change logged Sep 10, 2026.
What’s watching Joliet
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 Joliet — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Joliet (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Joliet
- Joliet police board to consider releasing audio from termination hearing for officer accused of Flock misuse
- Joliet police lieutenant accused of Flock misuse seeks termination hearing audio
- 2 Joliet PD members on leave for alleged misuse of Flock Safety Technology
- Joliet officer, dispatcher on leave over alleged Flock system misuse
What you can do in Joliet
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 Joliet
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).