Flock & ALPR Cameras in Maywood, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 9 automated license plate readers in and around Maywood — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 9 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Maywood, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 7 of them sit inside Maywood itself.
The rest sit in Melrose Park (1), Proviso Township (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Maywood in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:26 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Maywood
The readers mapped around Maywood break down as 5 Motorola Solutions, 2 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in May 2023; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- South 1st Avenue — 2 readers
- Madison Street — 2 readers
- Quincy Street — 1 reader
- South 9th Avenue — 1 reader
- South 5th Avenue — 1 reader
- Saint Charles Road — 1 reader
- West Lake Street — 1 reader
Maywood 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 7 traffic.
What’s watching Maywood
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 Maywood — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Maywood (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Maywood
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 Maywood
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).