Flock & ALPR Cameras in North Riverside, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 7 automated license plate readers in and around North Riverside — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 7 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of North Riverside, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 6 of them sit inside North Riverside itself.
The rest sit in Proviso Township (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near North Riverside in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 21:32 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in North Riverside
The readers mapped around North Riverside break down as 7 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Cermak Road — 4 readers
- Veteran Drive — 2 readers
- 1st Avenue Cutoff — 1 reader
North Riverside IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, North Riverside IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 24 other agencies.
North Riverside 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 4 entrance, 1 traffic.
What’s watching North Riverside
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 North Riverside — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to North Riverside (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around North Riverside
- 4 new license plate readers reported around North Riverside, IL
- New surveillance cameras making impact in North Riverside
- North Riverside trustees OK license plate reader system
What you can do in North Riverside
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 North Riverside
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).