Flock & ALPR Cameras in Zion, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 24 automated license plate readers in and around Zion — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 24 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Zion, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 22 of them sit inside Zion itself.
The rest sit in Beach Park (2).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (2). 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 Zion in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 22:16 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Zion
The readers mapped around Zion break down as 24 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Sheridan Road — 5 readers
- Rosecrans Road — 3 readers
- Lewis Avenue — 3 readers
- Salem Boulevard — 2 readers
- North Sheridan Road — 1 reader
- 33rd Street — 1 reader
- 23rd Street — 1 reader
- Gabriel Avenue — 1 reader
- Lorelei Drive — 1 reader
- Kenosha Road — 1 reader
- Bethlehem Avenue — 1 reader
- Barnhart Court — 1 reader
+ 3 more streets and roads mapped around Zion — all on the live map above.
Zion IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Zion IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 66 other agencies.
Zion in the Lake County picture
Lake County has 346 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #549 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 711,885 residents and 2,737 road miles. By road density that is 0.13 cameras per road mile, in the top 3.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 20 traffic, 3 entrance. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (2).
What’s watching Zion
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 Zion — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Zion (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Zion
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 Zion
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).