Flock & ALPR Cameras in Calumet Park, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 7 automated license plate readers in and around Calumet Park — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 24 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Calumet Park
The readers mapped around Calumet Park break down as 2 of unrecorded make, 2 Flock Safety, 2 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Illinois State Police. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2023; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- 125th Street — 2 readers
- I 57 — 2 readers
- South Ashland Avenue — 1 reader
- West 127th Street — 1 reader
Calumet Park IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Calumet Park IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 108 other agencies.
Calumet Park 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 6 traffic. Operators named on the record: Illinois State Police (2).
What’s watching Calumet Park
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 Calumet Park — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Calumet Park (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Calumet Park
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 Calumet Park
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).