Flock & ALPR Cameras in Moline, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 14 automated license plate readers in and around Moline — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Paused
Moline is on the record here. Moline Police Department paused its Flock license plate reader contract.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 14 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Moline, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 9 of them sit inside Moline itself.
The rest sit in Rock Island (5).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Moline in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 12:26 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Moline
The readers mapped around Moline break down as 14 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- John Deere Road — 2 readers
- 6th Avenue — 2 readers
- 18th Avenue — 1 reader
- 14th Avenue — 1 reader
- 44th Street — 1 reader
- I-74 Bridge Bike and Pedestrian Path — 1 reader
- 25th Avenue — 1 reader
- 12th Avenue — 1 reader
- 27th Street — 1 reader
- 44th Avenue Drive — 1 reader
- 44th Avenue — 1 reader
- 19th Street — 1 reader
Moline IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Moline IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 66 other agencies.
Moline in the Rock Island County picture
Rock Island County has 76 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #468 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 21.9% nationally. That’s across 142,995 residents and 1,328 road miles. By road density that is 0.06 cameras per road mile, in the top 10.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 14 traffic.
What’s watching Moline
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 Moline — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Moline (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Moline
- Why Moline Police are suspending the department's Flock Safety contract
- Here's why Moline Police are suspending the department's Flock Safety contract
- Mayor: Public outcry played a large role in the decision to shut down Flock in Moline
- Moline Police Ending Contract With Flock Safety
What you can do in Moline
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 Moline
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).