Flock & ALPR Cameras in Morton Grove, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 19 automated license plate readers in and around Morton Grove — 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 Morton Grove, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 15 of them sit inside Morton Grove itself.
The rest sit in Skokie (3).
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 Morton Grove in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Morton Grove
The readers mapped around Morton Grove break down as 18 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jul 2023; the most recent in May 2026.
- West Dempster Street — 4 readers
- North Waukegan Road — 3 readers
- Harlem Avenue — 2 readers
- Oakton Street Bikeway — 2 readers
- Central Avenue — 2 readers
- Golf Road — 1 reader
- Woods Drive — 1 reader
- Sayre Avenue — 1 reader
- Oakton Street — 1 reader
- River Drive — 1 reader
Morton Grove IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Morton Grove IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 68 other agencies.
Morton Grove 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, 1 entrance. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (2).
What’s watching Morton Grove
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 Morton Grove — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Morton Grove (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Morton Grove
What you can do in Morton Grove
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 Morton Grove
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).