Flock & ALPR Cameras in Hometown, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 17 automated license plate readers in and around Hometown — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 16 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Hometown, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 4 of them sit inside Hometown itself.
The rest sit in Oak Lawn (7), Chicago (4), Bedford Park (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Hometown in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 12:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Hometown
The readers mapped around Hometown break down as 16 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- South Cicero Avenue — 5 readers
- South Kostner Avenue — 2 readers
- West 79th Street — 2 readers
- West 95th Street — 2 readers
- West 87th Street — 1 reader
- South Duffy Avenue — 1 reader
- Southwest Highway — 1 reader
- 49th Court — 1 reader
- South State Road — 1 reader
Hometown IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Hometown IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 24 other agencies.
Hometown 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 12 traffic.
Camera activity around Hometown, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Hometown. Latest change logged Aug 18, 2026.
What’s watching Hometown
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 Hometown — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Hometown (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Hometown
What you can do in Hometown
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 Hometown
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).