Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lakewood, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 12 automated license plate readers in and around Lakewood — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 12 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Lakewood, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 6 of them sit inside Lakewood itself.
The rest sit in Crystal Lake (4), Lake in the Hills (1), Woodstock (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (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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No new reports near Lakewood in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 19:25 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Lakewood
The readers mapped around Lakewood break down as 9 Flock Safety, 3 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Lakewood Road — 3 readers
- Ballard Road — 1 reader
- Ridgefield Trace — 1 reader
- US 14 — 1 reader
- Redtail Drive — 1 reader
- McHenry Avenue — 1 reader
- Lake Avenue — 1 reader
- IL 176 — 1 reader
- Lake Shore Drive — 1 reader
- Bard Road — 1 reader
Lakewood IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Lakewood IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 23 other agencies.
Lakewood in the McHenry County picture
McHenry County has 111 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #867 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 311,366 residents and 1,878 road miles. By road density that is 0.06 cameras per road mile, in the top 10.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 6 traffic, 1 street. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (1).
Camera activity around Lakewood, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Lakewood. Latest change logged Aug 13, 2026.
What’s watching Lakewood
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 Lakewood — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Lakewood (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Lakewood
What you can do in Lakewood
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 Lakewood
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).