Flock & ALPR Cameras in Glen Ellyn, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 17 automated license plate readers in and around Glen Ellyn — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 17 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Glen Ellyn, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 14 of them sit inside Glen Ellyn itself.
The rest sit in Wheaton (2), Carol Stream (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Glen Ellyn in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 12:30 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Glen Ellyn
The readers mapped around Glen Ellyn break down as 12 Flock Safety, 3 Motorola Solutions, 1 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- West Roosevelt Road — 4 readers
- East Saint Charles Road — 3 readers
- East Roosevelt Road — 2 readers
- North Main Street — 2 readers
- North President Street — 1 reader
- East Geneva Road — 1 reader
- Park Boulevard — 1 reader
- Pennsylvania Avenue — 1 reader
- Main Street — 1 reader
- Crescent Boulevard — 1 reader
Glen Ellyn IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Glen Ellyn IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 82 other agencies.
Glen Ellyn 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 13 traffic, 1 street.
What’s watching Glen Ellyn
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 Glen Ellyn — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Glen Ellyn (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Glen Ellyn
What you can do in Glen Ellyn
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 Glen Ellyn
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).