Flock & ALPR Cameras in Melrose Park, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 11 automated license plate readers in and around Melrose Park — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 12 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Melrose Park, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 10 of them sit inside Melrose Park itself.
The rest sit in Bellwood (1), Maywood (1).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (2). 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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No new reports near Melrose Park in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 16:21 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Melrose Park
The readers mapped around Melrose Park break down as 11 Flock Safety, 1 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jul 2023; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- North Avenue — 4 readers
- Augusta Street — 1 reader
- North 25th Avenue — 1 reader
- South 25th Avenue — 1 reader
- Saint Charles Road — 1 reader
- Park Drive — 1 reader
- North Avenue Commuter Trail — 1 reader
- North 5th Avenue — 1 reader
- Sherman Street — 1 reader
Melrose Park IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Melrose Park IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 79 other agencies.
Melrose Park 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 9 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (2).
Camera activity around Melrose Park, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Melrose Park. Latest change logged Aug 26, 2026.
What’s watching Melrose Park
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 Melrose Park — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Melrose Park (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Melrose Park
What you can do in Melrose Park
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 Melrose Park
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).