Flock & ALPR Cameras in Riverside, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Riverside — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 30 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Riverside
The readers mapped around Riverside break down as 1 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Aug 2025.
- 1st Avenue — 1 reader
Riverside IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Riverside IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 35 other agencies.
Riverside 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 1 traffic.
What’s watching Riverside
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 Riverside — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Riverside (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Riverside
- 4 new license plate readers reported around North Riverside, IL
- New surveillance cameras making impact in North Riverside
- North Riverside trustees OK license plate reader system
What you can do in Riverside
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 Riverside
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).