Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lake Villa, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 6 automated license plate readers in and around Lake Villa — 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 Lake Villa, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 4 of them sit inside Lake Villa itself.
The rest sit in Lindenhurst (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Lake Villa in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 22:18 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Lake Villa
The readers mapped around Lake Villa break down as 6 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jul 2025; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- Grand Avenue — 2 readers
- Painted Lake Boulevard — 2 readers
- Benton Road — 1 reader
- West Grass Lake Road — 1 reader
Lake Villa IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Lake Villa IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 76 other agencies.
Lake Villa 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 1 traffic.
What’s watching Lake Villa
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 Lake Villa — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Lake Villa (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Lake Villa
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 Lake Villa
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).