Flock & ALPR Cameras in Niles, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 29 automated license plate readers in and around Niles — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 29 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Niles, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 22 of them sit inside Niles itself.
The rest sit in Chicago (4), Morton Grove (3).
10 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (9), [Niles Police Department] (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 11 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Niles
The readers mapped around Niles break down as 27 Flock Safety, 2 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety, [Niles Police Department]. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2023; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- West Touhy Avenue — 6 readers
- North Milwaukee Avenue — 3 readers
- Kirk Street — 3 readers
- West Howard Street — 3 readers
- North Merrimac Avenue — 2 readers
- Howard Street Bikeway — 2 readers
- West Albion Avenue — 1 reader
- North Concord Lane — 1 reader
- West Oak Avenue — 1 reader
- Maryland Street — 1 reader
- North Merrill Street — 1 reader
- North Harlem Avenue — 1 reader
+ 4 more streets and roads mapped around Niles — all on the live map above.
Niles IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Niles IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 24 other agencies.
Niles 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. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (9), [Niles Police Department] (1).
Camera activity around Niles, last 30 days
1 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Niles. Latest change logged Sep 11, 2026.
What’s watching Niles
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 Niles — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Niles (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Niles
What you can do in Niles
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 Niles
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).