Flock & ALPR Cameras in Riverdale, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 3 automated license plate readers in and around Riverdale — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 3 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Riverdale, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 2 of them sit inside Riverdale itself.
The rest sit in Harvey (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 24 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Riverdale
The readers mapped around Riverdale break down as 2 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2026; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- West 144th Street — 1 reader
- East 147th Street — 1 reader
Riverdale IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Riverdale IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 45 other agencies.
Riverdale 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 2 traffic.
What’s watching Riverdale
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 Riverdale — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Riverdale (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Riverdale
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 Riverdale
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).