Flock & ALPR Cameras in Elgin, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 119 automated license plate readers in and around Elgin — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 119 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Elgin, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 115 of them sit inside Elgin itself.
The rest sit in Hanover Township (4).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 21 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 15 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 9 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 9 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
📷 14 new license plate readers just reported around Elgin, IL. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #Elgin
📷 24 new license plate readers just reported around Elgin, IL. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #Elgin
Where the cameras are in Elgin
The readers mapped around Elgin break down as 113 Flock Safety, 8 Genetec, 2 Axon Enterprise. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Fox River Trail — 14 readers
- East Chicago Street — 11 readers
- South Liberty Street — 7 readers
- South Grove Avenue — 7 readers
- Symphony Way — 7 readers
- Larkin Avenue — 6 readers
- Villa Street — 5 readers
- North Randall Road — 5 readers
- South McLean Boulevard — 5 readers
- Kimball Street — 4 readers
- National Street — 4 readers
- East Highland Avenue — 3 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Elgin — all on the live map above.
Elgin 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 81 traffic.
Camera activity around Elgin, last 30 days
123 newly reported, 7 removed in our hourly change log for Elgin. Latest change logged Sep 9, 2026.
What’s watching Elgin
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 Elgin — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Elgin (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Elgin
- 5 license plate readers reported removed near Elgin, IL
- 14 new license plate readers reported around Elgin, IL
- 24 new license plate readers reported around Elgin, IL
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Elgin, IL
What you can do in Elgin
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 Elgin
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).