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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Fox River Grove, Illinois

Volunteers have reported 3 automated license plate readers in and around Fox River Grove — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 3 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Fox River Grove, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Fox River Grove itself.

The rest sit in Cary (1).

1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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Reported cameras nearby
#480
of 636 Illinois cities tracked
0.1%
of Illinois’s reported cameras
Live camera map 3 reported cameras around Fox River Grove, Illinois
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Fox River Grove

No new reports near Fox River Grove in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 23:10 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Fox River Grove

The readers mapped around Fox River Grove break down as 3 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.

  • South Northwest Highway — 1 reader
  • Braeburn Road — 1 reader
  • Plumtree Road — 1 reader

Fox River Grove in the McHenry County picture

McHenry County has 111 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #867 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 311,366 residents and 1,878 road miles. By road density that is 0.06 cameras per road mile, in the top 10.6% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 3 traffic.

Camera activity around Fox River Grove, last 30 days

1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Fox River Grove. Latest change logged Aug 29, 2026.

What’s watching Fox River 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 Fox River Grove — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Fox River Grove (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

What you can do in Fox River 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.

Cameras near Fox River Grove

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).