Flock & ALPR Cameras in Forest Park, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around Forest Park — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 8 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Forest Park, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 5 of them sit inside Forest Park itself.
The rest sit in Oak Park (2), River Forest (1).
4 of them name an operator in the record: Illinois State Police (4). 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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- Sep 25 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 13 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Forest Park
The readers mapped around Forest Park break down as 5 of unrecorded make, 1 Axis Communications. Named operators in the reports: Illinois State Police. The first camera here was reported in May 2023; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Eisenhower Expressway — 4 readers
- South Harlem Avenue — 1 reader
- Bonnie Brae Place — 1 reader
Forest 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 (4).
What’s watching Forest 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 Forest Park — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Forest Park (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Forest Park
- Illinois Secretary of State audit finds Forest Park Police Department shared license plate reader data with immigration officials
- New reports emerge on Border Patrol use of Flock cameras
- Why I voted to cancel Flock cameras
- RF chief stands by license plate tech but not Flock camera system
What you can do in Forest 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 Forest Park
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).