Flock & ALPR Cameras in Knollwood, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 6 automated license plate readers in and around Knollwood — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 6 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Knollwood, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Knollwood itself.
The rest sit in Lake Bluff (2), Lake Forest (2), Green Oaks (1).
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 1 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Knollwood
The readers mapped around Knollwood break down as 5 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jul 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Rockland Road — 1 reader
- Knollwood Road — 1 reader
- Heiden Drive — 1 reader
- Carroll Road — 1 reader
- North Birch Avenue — 1 reader
Knollwood 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 4 traffic.
Camera activity around Knollwood, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Knollwood. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.
What’s watching Knollwood
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 Knollwood — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Knollwood (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Knollwood
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.
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Cameras near Knollwood
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).