Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lyons, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 19 automated license plate readers in and around Lyons — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 19 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Lyons, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 9 of them sit inside Lyons itself.
The rest sit in Forest View (4), Stickney (3), McCook (2), Riverside (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Riverside IL PD (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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- Sep 22 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Lyons
The readers mapped around Lyons break down as 17 Flock Safety, 1 Genetec. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- South Harlem Avenue — 3 readers
- 1st Avenue — 2 readers
- 46th Street — 2 readers
- 47th Street — 2 readers
- Joliet Road — 2 readers
- Salt Creek Greenway Black Paved Trail — 2 readers
- Lawndale Avenue — 1 reader
- Ogden Avenue — 1 reader
- Wenonah Avenue — 1 reader
- 45th Street — 1 reader
- Fairbank Road — 1 reader
Lyons IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Lyons IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 91 other agencies.
Lyons 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 8 street, 7 traffic.
Camera activity around Lyons, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Lyons. Latest change logged Aug 15, 2026.
What’s watching Lyons
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 Lyons — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Lyons (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Lyons
What you can do in Lyons
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 Lyons
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).