Flock & ALPR Cameras in Downers Grove, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 12 automated license plate readers in and around Downers Grove — 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 Downers Grove, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 7 of them sit inside Downers Grove itself.
The rest sit in Lombard (3).
2 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Downers Grove in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Downers Grove
The readers mapped around Downers Grove break down as 7 Flock Safety, 3 Motorola Solutions, 2 Genetec. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Butterfield Road — 2 readers
- South Highland Avenue — 2 readers
- South Lloyd Avenue — 1 reader
- West Ogden Avenue — 1 reader
- Maple Hills Court — 1 reader
- Yorktown Center Drive — 1 reader
- Frontage Road — 1 reader
- South Finley Road — 1 reader
- Downers Drive — 1 reader
- 22nd Street — 1 reader
Downers Grove IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Downers Grove IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 62 other agencies.
Downers Grove 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 4 traffic.
Camera activity around Downers Grove, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Downers Grove. Latest change logged Aug 20, 2026.
What’s watching Downers 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 Downers Grove — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Downers Grove (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Downers Grove
What you can do in Downers 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 Downers Grove
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).