Flock & ALPR Cameras in Thornton, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around Thornton — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 8 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Thornton, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Thornton itself.
The rest sit in South Holland (5), Thornton Township (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Thornton in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 10:26 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Thornton
The readers mapped around Thornton break down as 6 Motorola Solutions, 1 of unrecorded make, 1 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Tri-State Tollway — 5 readers
- Calumet Expressway — 2 readers
- Margaret Street — 1 reader
Thornton IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Thornton IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 23 other agencies.
Thornton 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 6 traffic.
Camera activity around Thornton, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Thornton. Latest change logged Aug 31, 2026.
What’s watching Thornton
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 Thornton — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Thornton (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Thornton
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 Thornton
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).