Flock & ALPR Cameras in River Grove, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 10 automated license plate readers in and around River Grove — 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 River Grove, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 7 of them sit inside River Grove itself.
The rest sit in Melrose Park (2).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (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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- Oct 5 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in River Grove
The readers mapped around River Grove break down as 7 Flock Safety, 1 Axis Communications. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jul 2023; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- West Grand Avenue — 2 readers
- Des Plaines River Road — 1 reader
- Davisson Street — 1 reader
- West Fullerton Avenue — 1 reader
- Clinton Street — 1 reader
- Des Plaines River Trail Yellow Unpaved — 1 reader
- North Avenue — 1 reader
River Grove IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, River Grove IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 53 other agencies.
River Grove 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 8 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (2).
Camera activity around River Grove, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for River Grove. Latest change logged Aug 17, 2026.
What’s watching River Grove
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 River Grove — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to River Grove (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in River Grove
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 River Grove
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).