Flock & ALPR Cameras in Pontoon Beach, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 10 automated license plate readers in and around Pontoon Beach — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 10 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Pontoon Beach, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 7 of them sit inside Pontoon Beach itself.
The rest sit in Granite City (3).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 23 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
- Sep 23 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 13 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 10 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Pontoon Beach
The readers mapped around Pontoon Beach break down as 5 Motorola Solutions, 2 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2026; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- IL 111 — 5 readers
- State Route 162 — 1 reader
- Pontoon Road — 1 reader
Pontoon Beach 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 2 traffic.
Camera activity around Pontoon Beach, last 30 days
6 newly reported in our hourly change log for Pontoon Beach. Latest change logged Sep 10, 2026.
What’s watching Pontoon Beach
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 Pontoon Beach — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Pontoon Beach (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Pontoon Beach
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Pontoon Beach, IL
- 5 new license plate readers reported around Pontoon Beach, IL
What you can do in Pontoon Beach
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 Pontoon Beach
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).