Flock & ALPR Cameras in Oak Forest, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 21 automated license plate readers in and around Oak Forest — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 21 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Oak Forest, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 16 of them sit inside Oak Forest itself.
The rest sit in Bremen Township (4), Orland Park (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 12 Genetec camera newly reported
- Sep 12 Genetec camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Oak Forest
The readers mapped around Oak Forest break down as 18 Flock Safety, 1 Leonardo. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Cicero Avenue — 3 readers
- West 159th Street — 3 readers
- Central Avenue — 2 readers
- Le Claire Avenue — 1 reader
- Tinley Creek Red Paved Loop — 1 reader
- Tinley Creek Green Paved Trail — 1 reader
- Tinley Creek Purple Paved Trail — 1 reader
- Forest Avenue — 1 reader
- Peggy Lane — 1 reader
- 160th Street — 1 reader
- Oak Park Avenue — 1 reader
- Ellen Court — 1 reader
+ 2 more streets and roads mapped around Oak Forest — all on the live map above.
Oak Forest IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Oak Forest IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 20 other agencies.
Oak Forest 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 11 traffic, 8 street.
Camera activity around Oak Forest, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Oak Forest. Latest change logged Aug 23, 2026.
What’s watching Oak Forest
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 Oak Forest — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Oak Forest (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Oak Forest
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Oak Forest, IL
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Oak Forest, IL
- Oak Forest police capture fleeing driver with AR-15 using license plate reader
- License Plate Reading Cameras Help Oak Forest Police Combat Crime
What you can do in Oak Forest
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 Oak Forest
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).