Flock & ALPR Cameras in Oak Park, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 16 automated license plate readers in and around Oak Park — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Contract Canceled
Oak Park is on the record here. City council voted to cancel its contract with Flock Safety following a state investigation of the system's data sharing practices, which enabled violations of state law.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 16 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Oak Park, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 3 of them sit inside Oak Park itself.
The rest sit in Chicago (11), Cicero (2).
4 of them name an operator in the record: Chicago Police Department (2), Illinois State Police (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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- Sep 16 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
- Sep 13 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
- Sep 13 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
- Sep 13 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Oak Park
The readers mapped around Oak Park break down as 6 Motorola Solutions, 4 of unrecorded make, 2 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Chicago Police Department, Illinois State Police. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2023; the most recent in Mar 2026.
- Eisenhower Expressway — 2 readers
- North Laramie Avenue — 2 readers
- South Central Avenue — 1 reader
- West Madison Street — 1 reader
- West Chicago Avenue — 1 reader
- West Division Street — 1 reader
- South 59th Avenue — 1 reader
- South 58th Avenue — 1 reader
- South Austin Boulevard — 1 reader
- North Austin Boulevard — 1 reader
Oak Park IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Oak Park IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 9 other agencies.
Oak 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 10 traffic, 2 street. Operators named on the record: Chicago Police Department (2), Illinois State Police (2).
What’s watching Oak 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 Oak Park — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Oak Park (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Oak Park
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Oak Park, IL
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Oak Park, IL
- Evanston, Oak Park end contracts with Flock Safety, license plate reader company under investigation in Illinois
- After Oak Park cut ties, state says Flock Safety broke the law
What you can do in Oak 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 Oak Park
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).