Flock & ALPR Cameras in Arlington Heights, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 15 automated license plate readers in and around Arlington Heights — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Arlington Heights in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 13:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Arlington Heights
The readers mapped around Arlington Heights break down as 13 Flock Safety, 2 Axis Communications. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- East Northwest Highway — 5 readers
- Palatine Road — 4 readers
- North Arlington Heights Road — 3 readers
- South Arlington Heights Road — 1 reader
- North Dunton Avenue — 1 reader
- North Vail Avenue — 1 reader
Arlington Heights IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Arlington Heights IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 30 other agencies.
Arlington Heights 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 11 traffic.
Camera activity around Arlington Heights, last 30 days
1 removed in our hourly change log for Arlington Heights. Latest change logged Aug 30, 2026.
What’s watching Arlington Heights
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 Arlington Heights — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Arlington Heights (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Arlington Heights
What you can do in Arlington Heights
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 Arlington Heights
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).