Flock & ALPR Cameras in Buffalo Grove, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 14 automated license plate readers in and around Buffalo Grove — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 14 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Buffalo Grove, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 7 of them sit inside Buffalo Grove itself.
The rest sit in Wheeling (5), Arlington Heights (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Buffalo Grove 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 Buffalo Grove
The readers mapped around Buffalo Grove break down as 12 Flock Safety, 1 Motorola Solutions, 1 Axis Communications. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- West Dundee Road — 3 readers
- Lake Cook Road — 3 readers
- South Buffalo Grove Road — 1 reader
- Weiland Road — 1 reader
- Lexington Drive — 1 reader
- Bank Lane — 1 reader
- East Dundee Road — 1 reader
- McHenry Road — 1 reader
- North Arlington Heights Road — 1 reader
- East Lake Cook Road — 1 reader
Buffalo Grove IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Buffalo Grove IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 24 other agencies.
Buffalo Grove 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 13 traffic.
Camera activity around Buffalo Grove, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Buffalo Grove. Latest change logged Aug 16, 2026.
What’s watching Buffalo Grove
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 Buffalo Grove — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Buffalo Grove (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Buffalo Grove
- Buffalo Grove Next To Implement License Plate Reader Cameras - Journal & Topics Media Group
- Buffalo Grove adding license plate readers
What you can do in Buffalo Grove
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 Buffalo Grove
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).