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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Alsip, Illinois

Volunteers have reported 11 automated license plate readers in and around Alsip — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 11 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Alsip, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 9 of them sit inside Alsip itself.

The rest sit in Crestwood (1), Oak Lawn (1).

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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11
Reported cameras nearby
#228
of 636 Illinois cities tracked
0.1%
of Illinois’s reported cameras
Live camera map 11 reported cameras around Alsip, 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 Alsip

No new reports near Alsip in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:10 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Alsip

The readers mapped around Alsip break down as 6 Motorola Solutions, 5 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.

  • Cicero Avenue — 4 readers
  • South Cicero Avenue — 2 readers
  • West 115th Street — 1 reader
  • West 122nd Street — 1 reader
  • Cal Sag Road — 1 reader
  • West 119th Street — 1 reader
  • West 121st Street — 1 reader

Alsip IL PD and the sharing network

Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Alsip IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 2 other agencies.

Alsip in the Cook County picture

Cook County has 1,915 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #823 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 5,185,812 residents and 9,668 road miles. By road density that is 0.20 cameras per road mile, in the top 1.2% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 4 traffic.

Camera activity around Alsip, last 30 days

3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Alsip. Latest change logged Aug 20, 2026.

What’s watching Alsip

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

The latest around Alsip

What you can do in Alsip

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 Alsip

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