Flock & ALPR Cameras in Des Plaines, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 22 automated license plate readers in and around Des Plaines — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 22 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Des Plaines, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 4 of them sit inside Des Plaines itself.
The rest sit in Glenview (7), Maine Township (6), Niles (3), Northfield Township (1), Park Ridge (1).
4 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (4). 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 Des Plaines in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 9, 03:12 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Des Plaines
The readers mapped around Des Plaines break down as 16 Flock Safety, 6 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Zenith Drive — 3 readers
- West Golf Road — 2 readers
- North Milwaukee Avenue — 2 readers
- East Golf Road — 2 readers
- Milwaukee Avenue — 2 readers
- West Dempster Street — 1 reader
- Dearlove Road — 1 reader
- Briar Court — 1 reader
- Rand Road — 1 reader
- Manor Lane — 1 reader
- Lady Bird Drive — 1 reader
- West Emerson Street — 1 reader
+ 4 more streets and roads mapped around Des Plaines — all on the live map above.
Des Plaines IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Des Plaines IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 27 other agencies.
Des Plaines 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, 3 street. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (4).
Camera activity around Des Plaines, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Des Plaines. Latest change logged Aug 18, 2026.
What’s watching Des Plaines
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 Des Plaines — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Des Plaines (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Des Plaines
What you can do in Des Plaines
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 Des Plaines
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).