Flock & ALPR Cameras in Highwood, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 14 automated license plate readers in and around Highwood — 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 Highwood, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 5 of them sit inside Highwood itself.
The rest sit in Highland Park (7), Lake Forest (2).
8 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (5), Highland Park Police Department (3). 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 Highwood 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 Highwood
The readers mapped around Highwood break down as 14 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety, Highland Park Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2024; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- Simonds Way — 2 readers
- Patten Road — 2 readers
- Park Avenue West — 2 readers
- Skokie Valley Road — 2 readers
- Lyster Road — 2 readers
- Old Elm Road — 1 reader
- Green Bay Road — 1 reader
- Half Day Road — 1 reader
- Sheridan Road — 1 reader
Highwood IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Highwood IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 6 other agencies.
Highwood 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 13 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (5), Highland Park Police Department (3).
What’s watching Highwood
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 Highwood — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Highwood (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Highwood
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 Highwood
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).