Flock & ALPR Cameras in McCullom Lake, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around McCullom Lake — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 4 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of McCullom Lake, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside McCullom Lake itself.
The rest sit in Johnsburg (3), McHenry (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near McCullom Lake in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 11:10 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in McCullom Lake
The readers mapped around McCullom Lake break down as 4 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2025; the most recent in Feb 2026.
- Richmond Road — 3 readers
- Running Brook Farm Boulevard — 1 reader
McCullom Lake 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 4 traffic.
What’s watching McCullom Lake
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 McCullom Lake — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to McCullom Lake (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in McCullom Lake
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 McCullom Lake
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).