Flock & ALPR Cameras in Hoffman Estates, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 36 automated license plate readers in and around Hoffman Estates — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 37 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Hoffman Estates, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Hoffman Estates itself.
The rest sit in Schaumburg (32), Palatine (4).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Schaumburg 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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- Sep 13 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
📷 11 new license plate readers just reported around Hoffman Estates, IL. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #HoffmanEstates
Where the cameras are in Hoffman Estates
The readers mapped around Hoffman Estates break down as 25 Flock Safety, 7 Motorola Solutions, 4 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Schaumburg Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2023; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- West Golf Road — 9 readers
- North Meacham Road — 5 readers
- West Higgins Road — 5 readers
- West Algonquin Road — 3 readers
- East Frontage Road — 2 readers
- East Woodfield Road — 2 readers
- Corporate Crossing — 1 reader
- Kris Howard Boulevard — 1 reader
- West Frontage Road — 1 reader
- North Plum Grove Road — 1 reader
- East Higgins Road — 1 reader
- Mall Drive — 1 reader
+ 4 more streets and roads mapped around Hoffman Estates — all on the live map above.
Hoffman Estates IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Hoffman Estates IL PD runs 78 cameras of its own. Its network connects to 60 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Hoffman Estates 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 32 traffic. Operators named on the record: Schaumburg Police Department (1).
Camera activity around Hoffman Estates, last 30 days
15 newly reported in our hourly change log for Hoffman Estates. Latest change logged Sep 4, 2026.
What’s watching Hoffman Estates
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 Hoffman Estates — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Hoffman Estates (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Hoffman Estates
- On the agenda: Hoffman Estates Public Health & Safety Committee — ALPR (Sep 28)
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Hoffman Estates, IL
- 11 new license plate readers reported around Hoffman Estates, IL
- On the agenda: Hoffman Estates Finance Committee Special — license plate recognition (Sep 3)
What you can do in Hoffman Estates
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 Hoffman Estates
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).