Illinois · Local Surveillance Report

Flock & ALPR Cameras in Park Ridge, Illinois

Volunteers have reported 9 automated license plate readers in and around Park Ridge — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 9 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Park Ridge, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 8 of them sit inside Park Ridge itself.

The rest sit in Niles (1).

1 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (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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Reported cameras nearby

#257

of 636 Illinois cities tracked

0.1%

of Illinois’s reported cameras

The local record — what was proposed here

Every record for this area on the Docket → · nothing is ever deleted.

Live camera map 9 reported cameras around Park Ridge, Illinois

Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →

Camera Watch Recently reported near Park Ridge

No new reports near Park Ridge in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Park Ridge

The readers mapped around Park Ridge break down as 9 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.

Fortuna Avenue — 2 readers
North Grace Avenue — 1 reader
Glenlake Avenue — 1 reader
West Touhy Avenue — 1 reader
Des Plaines River Trail Yellow Unpaved — 1 reader
Peterson Avenue — 1 reader
Busse Highway — 1 reader
Oakton Street — 1 reader

Park Ridge IL PD and the sharing network

Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Park Ridge IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 25 other agencies.

Park Ridge 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 7 traffic, 2 street. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (1).

What’s watching Park Ridge

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 Park Ridge — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Park Ridge (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

The latest around Park Ridge

What you can do in Park Ridge

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 Park Ridge

Niles (29) Rosemont (344) Des Plaines (22) Norridge (3)

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).