Flock & ALPR Cameras in Carol Stream, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 33 automated license plate readers in and around Carol Stream — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 33 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Carol Stream, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 26 of them sit inside Carol Stream itself.
The rest sit in Wayne Township (3), Bloomingdale (2), Glendale Heights (1), Winfield (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Carol Stream in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 00:32 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Carol Stream
The readers mapped around Carol Stream break down as 24 Flock Safety, 8 of unrecorded make, 1 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- South Gary Avenue — 5 readers
- Gary Avenue Bicycle Path — 3 readers
- West Army Trail Road — 3 readers
- Lies Road Bicycle Path — 3 readers
- North Gary Avenue — 3 readers
- North County Farm Road — 2 readers
- North Avenue — 2 readers
- County Farm Road — 1 reader
- West Fullerton Avenue — 1 reader
- Old Gary Avenue — 1 reader
- South Schmale Road — 1 reader
- Kuhn Road — 1 reader
+ 7 more streets and roads mapped around Carol Stream — all on the live map above.
Carol Stream IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Carol Stream IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 72 other agencies.
Carol Stream in the DuPage County picture
DuPage County has 626 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #278 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 13% nationally. That’s across 927,263 residents and 2,444 road miles. By road density that is 0.26 cameras per road mile, in the top 0.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 17 traffic.
What’s watching Carol Stream
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 Carol Stream — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Carol Stream (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Carol Stream
What you can do in Carol Stream
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 Carol Stream
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).