Flock & ALPR Cameras in Bartlett, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 12 automated license plate readers in and around Bartlett — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 12 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Bartlett, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 6 of them sit inside Bartlett itself.
The rest sit in Streamwood (4), Elgin (1), Hanover Park (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Forest Preserve District of DuPage County (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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No new reports near Bartlett in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 19:21 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Bartlett
The readers mapped around Bartlett break down as 11 Flock Safety, 1 Genetec. Named operators in the reports: Forest Preserve District of DuPage County. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Bartlett Road — 2 readers
- East Lake Street — 2 readers
- Bittersweet Drive — 1 reader
- Mark Thomas Lane — 1 reader
- Lambert Lane — 1 reader
- Tall Tree Drive — 1 reader
- South Bartlett Road — 1 reader
- South Park Avenue — 1 reader
- Elizabeth Drive — 1 reader
- East Schick Road — 1 reader
Bartlett IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Bartlett IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 51 other agencies.
Bartlett 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 4 traffic, 1 public. Operators named on the record: Forest Preserve District of DuPage County (1).
Camera activity around Bartlett, last 30 days
1 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Bartlett. Latest change logged Sep 1, 2026.
What’s watching Bartlett
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 Bartlett — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Bartlett (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Bartlett
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 Bartlett
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).