Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lemont, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 18 automated license plate readers in and around Lemont — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 18 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Lemont, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 10 of them sit inside Lemont itself.
The rest sit in Homer Glen (3), Woodridge (3), Palos Park (1).
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 15 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 8 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Lemont
The readers mapped around Lemont break down as 8 Flock Safety, 7 Motorola Solutions, 2 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Lemont Road — 4 readers
- 127th Street — 3 readers
- South Archer Avenue — 2 readers
- Oak Tree Lane — 1 reader
- Old Lemont Road — 1 reader
- West New Avenue — 1 reader
- Timberline Drive — 1 reader
- Ashbury Lane — 1 reader
- 97th Street — 1 reader
- West 143rd Street — 1 reader
- Main Street — 1 reader
Lemont IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Lemont IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 25 other agencies.
Lemont 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 13 traffic.
Camera activity around Lemont, last 30 days
4 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Lemont. Latest change logged Sep 8, 2026.
What’s watching Lemont
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 Lemont — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Lemont (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Lemont
What you can do in Lemont
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 Lemont
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).