Flock & ALPR Cameras in Long Grove, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 10 automated license plate readers in and around Long Grove — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 10 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Long Grove, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 6 of them sit inside Long Grove itself.
The rest sit in Palatine Township (2), Buffalo Grove (1), Palatine (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Long Grove in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 21:32 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Long Grove
The readers mapped around Long Grove break down as 10 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Hilltop Road — 2 readers
- West Nichols Road — 1 reader
- Arlington Heights Road — 1 reader
- Nichols Road — 1 reader
- Pheasant Run — 1 reader
- North Baldwin Road — 1 reader
- Checker Road — 1 reader
- Richmond Lane — 1 reader
- Eastgate Lane — 1 reader
Long Grove 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 10 traffic.
Camera activity around Long Grove, last 30 days
4 newly reported in our hourly change log for Long Grove. Latest change logged Sep 5, 2026.
What’s watching Long Grove
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 Long Grove — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Long Grove (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Long Grove
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 Long Grove
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).