Flock & ALPR Cameras in Shorewood, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 43 automated license plate readers in and around Shorewood — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 43 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Shorewood, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 16 of them sit inside Shorewood itself.
The rest sit in Joliet (27).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Jun 9, 2026 On the agenda: Shorewood Village Board - Jun 09, 2026 — Flock Safety (Jun 9)
- Aug 12, 2025 On the agenda: Shorewood Village Board - Aug 12, 2025 — Flock Safety (Aug 12)
- Apr 22, 2025 On the agenda: Shorewood Village Board - Apr 22, 2025 — Flock Safety (Apr 22)
- Jul 9, 2024 On the agenda: Shorewood Village Board - Jul 09, 2024 — Flock Safety (Jul 9)
Every record for this area on the Docket → · nothing is ever deleted.
No new reports near Shorewood in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Shorewood
The readers mapped around Shorewood break down as 42 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- West Black Road — 4 readers
- Caton Farm Road — 4 readers
- West Jefferson Street — 4 readers
- Ridge Road — 3 readers
- Rock Run Greenway — 2 readers
- Seil Road — 2 readers
- River Road — 2 readers
- Joliet Jr. College Entrance — 2 readers
- Woodcreek Drive — 2 readers
- Forestview Drive — 2 readers
- Arbeiter Road — 2 readers
- Houbolt Road — 1 reader
+ 13 more streets and roads mapped around Shorewood — all on the live map above.
Shorewood IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Shorewood IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 95 other agencies.
Shorewood 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 42 traffic.
Camera activity around Shorewood, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Shorewood. Latest change logged Sep 4, 2026.
What’s watching Shorewood
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 Shorewood — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Shorewood (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Shorewood
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Shorewood, IL
- On the agenda: Shorewood Village Board - Jun 09, 2026 — Flock Safety (Jun 9)
- On the agenda: Shorewood Village Board - Aug 12, 2025 — Flock Safety (Aug 12)
- On the agenda: Shorewood Village Board - Apr 22, 2025 — Flock Safety (Apr 22)
What you can do in Shorewood
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 Shorewood
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).