Flock & ALPR Cameras in Palos Hills, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 6 automated license plate readers in and around Palos Hills — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Palos Hills in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:27 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Palos Hills
The readers mapped around Palos Hills break down as 5 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Walnut Terrace — 2 readers
- South Roberts Road — 1 reader
- West 111th Street — 1 reader
- West 99th Street — 1 reader
- 103rd Street — 1 reader
Palos Hills IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Palos Hills IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 72 other agencies.
Palos Hills 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 traffic.
Camera activity around Palos Hills, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Palos Hills. Latest change logged Aug 15, 2026.
What’s watching Palos Hills
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 Palos Hills — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Palos Hills (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Palos Hills
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 Palos Hills
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).