Flock & ALPR Cameras in South Shore, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 3 automated license plate readers in and around South Shore — 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 South Shore, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside South Shore itself.
The rest sit in Chicago (3).
3 of them name an operator in the record: Chicago Police Department (3). 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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No new reports near South Shore in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 01:00 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in South Shore
The readers mapped around South Shore break down as 3 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Chicago Police Department. Every report here dates to Oct 2023.
- South South Chicago Avenue — 2 readers
- East 79th Street — 1 reader
South Shore 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 3 traffic. Operators named on the record: Chicago Police Department (3).
What’s watching South Shore
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 South Shore — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to South Shore (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in South Shore
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 South Shore
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).