Flock & ALPR Cameras in Harvey, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Harvey — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 5 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Harvey, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 4 of them sit inside Harvey itself.
The rest sit in Markham (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Harvey in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 13:21 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Harvey
The readers mapped around Harvey break down as 5 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Dixie Highway — 2 readers
- 163rd Street — 1 reader
- West 159th Street — 1 reader
- East 159th Street — 1 reader
Harvey IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Harvey IL PD has logged 76 plate-database searches, has captured 590,159 vehicle records. Its network connects to 91 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Harvey 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 2 traffic.
Camera activity around Harvey, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Harvey. Latest change logged Aug 14, 2026.
What’s watching Harvey
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 Harvey — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Harvey (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Harvey
- Harvey, Illinois adding Flock Safety drones amid growing concerns over surveillance technology and police misuse of data
- Harvey, Illinois expands police surveillance network with Flock camera technology as privacy concerns persist
What you can do in Harvey
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 Harvey
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).