Flock & ALPR Cameras in Carpentersville, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 14 automated license plate readers in and around Carpentersville — 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 Carpentersville, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 8 of them sit inside Carpentersville itself.
The rest sit in Barrington Township (3), Dundee Township (2), East Dundee (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Carpentersville in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Carpentersville
The readers mapped around Carpentersville break down as 14 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- IL 68 — 2 readers
- Williams Road — 2 readers
- Helm Road — 2 readers
- East Algonquin Road — 1 reader
- South Kennedy Drive — 1 reader
- Longmeadow Parkway — 1 reader
- North Kennedy Drive — 1 reader
- East Penny Road — 1 reader
- West County Line Road — 1 reader
- Skyline Drive — 1 reader
- Kings Road — 1 reader
Carpentersville IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Carpentersville IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 119 other agencies.
Carpentersville in the Kane County picture
Kane County has 160 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #988 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 516,097 residents and 1,989 road miles. By road density that is 0.08 cameras per road mile, in the top 6.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 9 traffic.
What’s watching Carpentersville
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 Carpentersville — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Carpentersville (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Carpentersville
What you can do in Carpentersville
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 Carpentersville
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).