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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Hodgkins, Illinois

Volunteers have reported 3 automated license plate readers in and around Hodgkins — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 3 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Hodgkins, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 2 of them sit inside Hodgkins itself.

The rest sit in Countryside (1).

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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Reported cameras nearby
#505
of 636 Illinois cities tracked
0.1%
of Illinois’s reported cameras
Live camera map 3 reported cameras around Hodgkins, Illinois
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Hodgkins

No new reports near Hodgkins in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 18:01 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Hodgkins

The readers mapped around Hodgkins break down as 3 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Apr 2026.

  • East Avenue — 2 readers
  • South La Grange Road — 1 reader

Hodgkins IL PD and the sharing network

Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Hodgkins IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 27 other agencies.

Hodgkins 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 1 traffic.

What’s watching Hodgkins

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 Hodgkins — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Hodgkins (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

What you can do in Hodgkins

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.

Cameras near Hodgkins

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).