Flock & ALPR Cameras in Elmwood Park, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 17 automated license plate readers in and around Elmwood Park — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 17 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Elmwood Park, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 3 of them sit inside Elmwood Park itself.
The rest sit in Chicago (14).
9 of them name an operator in the record: Chicago Police Department (6), Flock Safety (2), Lowe's (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Elmwood Park in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 22:19 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Elmwood Park
The readers mapped around Elmwood Park break down as 8 of unrecorded make, 5 Flock Safety, 3 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Chicago Police Department, Flock Safety, Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in May 2023; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- West Grand Avenue — 7 readers
- North Normandy Avenue — 4 readers
- North Harlem Avenue — 2 readers
- West Belmont Avenue — 1 reader
- West Wellington Avenue — 1 reader
- North Avenue — 1 reader
- West Diversey Avenue — 1 reader
Elmwood Park IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Elmwood Park IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 19 other agencies.
Elmwood 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 11 traffic. Operators named on the record: Chicago Police Department (6), Flock Safety (2), Lowe's (1).
What’s watching Elmwood 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 Elmwood Park — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Elmwood Park (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Elmwood Park
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Elmwood Park, IL
- Elmwood Park, Illinois to start using ShotSpotter, gunshot detection technology rejected by Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson
What you can do in Elmwood 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 Elmwood Park
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).