Flock & ALPR Cameras in Harwood Heights, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 29 automated license plate readers in and around Harwood Heights — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 29 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Harwood Heights, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 6 of them sit inside Harwood Heights itself.
The rest sit in Chicago (18), Norridge (5).
20 of them name an operator in the record: Chicago Police Department (11), Flock Safety (8), Harwood Heights Police (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 Harwood Heights in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Harwood Heights
The readers mapped around Harwood Heights break down as 16 Flock Safety, 9 of unrecorded make, 2 Genetec. Named operators in the reports: Chicago Police Department, Flock Safety, Harwood Heights Police. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2021; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- North Nagle Avenue — 7 readers
- North Harlem Avenue — 7 readers
- West Addison Street — 3 readers
- West Gunnison Street — 2 readers
- West Lawrence Avenue — 2 readers
- West Bryn Mawr Avenue — 2 readers
- Newland Avenue — 1 reader
- Forest Preserve Drive — 1 reader
- North Northwest Highway — 1 reader
- North Avondale Avenue — 1 reader
- West Argyle Street — 1 reader
- West Peterson Avenue — 1 reader
Harwood Heights IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Harwood Heights IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 85 other agencies.
Harwood Heights 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 23 traffic. Operators named on the record: Chicago Police Department (11), Flock Safety (8), Harwood Heights Police (1).
Camera activity around Harwood Heights, last 30 days
2 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Harwood Heights. Latest change logged Sep 5, 2026.
What’s watching Harwood Heights
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 Harwood Heights — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Harwood Heights (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Harwood Heights
What you can do in Harwood Heights
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.
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Cameras near Harwood Heights
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).