Flock & ALPR Cameras in Hawthorn Woods, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 1 automated license plate readers in and around Hawthorn Woods — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 1 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Hawthorn Woods, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Hawthorn Woods itself.
The rest sit in Long Grove (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Hawthorn Woods in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 23:00 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Hawthorn Woods
The readers mapped around Hawthorn Woods break down as 1 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Sep 2025.
- Cripple Creek Drive — 1 reader
Hawthorn Woods IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Hawthorn Woods IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 23 other agencies.
Hawthorn Woods 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.
What’s watching Hawthorn Woods
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 Hawthorn Woods — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Hawthorn Woods (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Hawthorn Woods
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 Hawthorn Woods
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).