Flock & ALPR Cameras in Glencoe, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 14 automated license plate readers in and around Glencoe — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 14 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Glencoe, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 8 of them sit inside Glencoe itself.
The rest sit in Northbrook (5), Highland Park (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Highland Park Police Department (1). 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 Glencoe in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 21:32 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Glencoe
The readers mapped around Glencoe break down as 14 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Highland Park Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Nov 2025.
- Sheridan Road — 4 readers
- Skokie Boulevard — 4 readers
- Dundee Road — 3 readers
- Green Bay Road — 2 readers
- Forestway Drive — 1 reader
Glencoe IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Glencoe IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 130 other agencies.
Glencoe 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. Operators named on the record: Highland Park Police Department (1).
What’s watching Glencoe
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 Glencoe — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Glencoe (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Glencoe
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 Glencoe
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).