Flock & ALPR Cameras in Matteson, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 28 automated license plate readers in and around Matteson — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 28 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Matteson, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 17 of them sit inside Matteson itself.
The rest sit in Olympia Fields (9), Flossmoor (1), Rich Township (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Matteson in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 10:26 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Matteson
The readers mapped around Matteson break down as 28 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Cicero Avenue — 8 readers
- Crawford Avenue — 6 readers
- Lincoln Highway — 4 readers
- Vollmer Road — 2 readers
- Central Avenue — 2 readers
- Olympian Way — 1 reader
- Governors Highway — 1 reader
- Kostner Avenue — 1 reader
- Lindenwood Drive — 1 reader
- Scott Drive — 1 reader
- 203rd Street — 1 reader
Matteson IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Matteson IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 122 other agencies.
Matteson 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 24 traffic, 1 street.
Camera activity around Matteson, last 30 days
8 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Matteson. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.
What’s watching Matteson
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 Matteson — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Matteson (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Matteson
- 5 new license plate readers reported around Matteson, IL
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Matteson, IL
What you can do in Matteson
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 Matteson
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).