Flock & ALPR Cameras in Blue Island, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 6 automated license plate readers in and around Blue Island — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Blue Island in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 19:24 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Blue Island
The readers mapped around Blue Island break down as 6 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- West 127th Street — 3 readers
- Hoyne Avenue — 1 reader
- Vermont Street — 1 reader
- Western Avenue — 1 reader
Blue Island IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Blue Island IL PD runs 14 cameras of its own, has logged 101 plate-database searches, has captured 358,340 vehicle records. Its network connects to 413 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Adams County IL SO, Addison IL PD, Antioch IL PD, Arcola IL PD, Arlington Heights IL PD, Athens IL PD, Auburn IL PD, Aurora IL PD.
Blue Island 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 5 traffic.
Camera activity around Blue Island, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Blue Island. Latest change logged Sep 5, 2026.
What’s watching Blue Island
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 Blue Island — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Blue Island (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Blue Island
- Blue Island reapproves controversial Flock Safety license plate cameras
- Blue Island reapproves controversial Flock license plate cameras
- Blue Island renews controversial Flock Safety license plate cameras
- Blue Island officials seeks assurance on license plate cameras
What you can do in Blue Island
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 Blue Island
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).