Flock & ALPR Cameras in Hazel Crest, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 3 automated license plate readers in and around Hazel Crest — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 3 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Hazel Crest, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 2 of them sit inside Hazel Crest itself.
The rest sit in Homewood (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Hazel Crest in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 01:07 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Hazel Crest
The readers mapped around Hazel Crest break down as 3 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- East Carriageway Drive — 1 reader
- 175th Street — 1 reader
- 183rd Street — 1 reader
Hazel Crest IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Hazel Crest IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 63 other agencies.
Hazel Crest 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 3 traffic.
Camera activity around Hazel Crest, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Hazel Crest. Latest change logged Aug 26, 2026.
What’s watching Hazel Crest
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 Hazel Crest — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Hazel Crest (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Hazel Crest
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 Hazel Crest
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).