Flock & ALPR Cameras in Plainfield, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 53 automated license plate readers in and around Plainfield — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 53 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Plainfield, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 36 of them sit inside Plainfield itself.
The rest sit in Naperville (8), Bolingbrook (3), Plainfield Township (3), Romeoville (2), Wheatland Township (1).
7 of them name an operator in the record: Plainfield Police (6), Naperville Police (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Plainfield in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 21:32 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Plainfield
The readers mapped around Plainfield break down as 52 Flock Safety, 1 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Plainfield Police, Naperville Police. The first camera here was reported in May 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- 248th Avenue — 7 readers
- South Naperville Road — 6 readers
- Fort Beggs Drive — 4 readers
- East Main Street — 2 readers
- Lockport Street — 2 readers
- West Lockport Road — 2 readers
- Lincoln Highway — 2 readers
- Illinois Route 59 — 2 readers
- Lockport Road — 2 readers
- West Boughton Road — 2 readers
- Plainfield — 2 readers
- Waterford Boulevard — 2 readers
+ 15 more streets and roads mapped around Plainfield — all on the live map above.
Plainfield IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Plainfield IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 70 other agencies.
Plainfield 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 50 traffic. Operators named on the record: Plainfield Police (6), Naperville Police (1).
Camera activity around Plainfield, last 30 days
6 newly reported in our hourly change log for Plainfield. Latest change logged Aug 27, 2026.
What’s watching Plainfield
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 Plainfield — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Plainfield (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Plainfield
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Plainfield, IL
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Plainfield, IL
What you can do in Plainfield
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 Plainfield
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).