Flock & ALPR Cameras in Summit, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 20 automated license plate readers in and around Summit — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 20 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Summit, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 11 of them sit inside Summit itself.
The rest sit in Chicago (5), Bedford Park (4).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Summit Police Department (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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- Sep 29 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 19 Genetec camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Summit
The readers mapped around Summit break down as 15 Flock Safety, 2 Motorola Solutions, 1 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Summit Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- 73rd Avenue — 4 readers
- South Archer Avenue — 3 readers
- South Harlem Avenue — 2 readers
- Archer Avenue — 1 reader
- West Archer Avenue — 1 reader
- West 53rd Street — 1 reader
- Archer Road — 1 reader
- 65th Street — 1 reader
- 74th Avenue — 1 reader
- 66th Place — 1 reader
- 65th Place — 1 reader
- 66th Street — 1 reader
Summit IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Summit IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 130 other agencies.
Summit 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 14 traffic. Operators named on the record: Summit Police Department (1).
Camera activity around Summit, last 30 days
9 newly reported in our hourly change log for Summit. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.
What’s watching Summit
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 Summit — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Summit (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Summit
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Summit, IL
- 5 new license plate readers reported around Summit, IL
What you can do in Summit
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 Summit
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).