Flock & ALPR Cameras in Gurnee, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 21 automated license plate readers in and around Gurnee — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 21 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Gurnee, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 15 of them sit inside Gurnee itself.
The rest sit in Waukegan (6).
6 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (6). 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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- Sep 8 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Gurnee
The readers mapped around Gurnee break down as 21 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Six Flags Drive — 3 readers
- North O'Plaine Road — 2 readers
- Nations Drive — 2 readers
- North Delany Road — 2 readers
- Plaza Drive — 2 readers
- North Skokie Highway — 2 readers
- North River Road — 2 readers
- Grand Avenue — 1 reader
- Sunset Avenue — 1 reader
- Washington Street — 1 reader
- North Northwestern Avenue — 1 reader
- Skokie Highway — 1 reader
+ 2 more streets and roads mapped around Gurnee — all on the live map above.
Gurnee IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Gurnee IL PD runs 27 cameras of its own, has logged 398 plate-database searches, has captured 439,667 vehicle records. Its network connects to 96 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Gurnee in the Lake County picture
Lake County has 346 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #549 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 711,885 residents and 2,737 road miles. By road density that is 0.13 cameras per road mile, in the top 3.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 19 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (6).
Camera activity around Gurnee, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Gurnee. Latest change logged Sep 8, 2026.
What’s watching Gurnee
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 Gurnee — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Gurnee (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Gurnee
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Gurnee, IL
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Gurnee, IL
What you can do in Gurnee
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 Gurnee
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).