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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Peotone, Illinois

Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around Peotone — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

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8
Reported cameras nearby
#300
of 636 Illinois cities tracked
0.1%
of Illinois’s reported cameras
Live camera map 8 reported cameras around Peotone, Illinois
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Peotone

No new reports near Peotone in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 22:16 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Peotone

The readers mapped around Peotone break down as 8 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.

  • West Wilmington Road — 2 readers
  • Peotone Beecher Road — 1 reader
  • North Harlem Avenue — 1 reader
  • South Governors Highway — 1 reader
  • North Railroad Street — 1 reader
  • Tucker Road — 1 reader
  • South Rathje Road — 1 reader

Peotone IL PD and the sharing network

Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Peotone IL PD runs 14 cameras of its own, has logged 5 plate-database searches, has captured 109,828 vehicle records. Its network connects to 97 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.

Peotone 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 8 traffic.

Camera activity around Peotone, last 30 days

2 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Peotone. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.

What’s watching Peotone

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 Peotone — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Peotone (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

What you can do in Peotone

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.

Cameras near Peotone

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).