Flock & ALPR Cameras in Mount Prospect, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 21 automated license plate readers in and around Mount Prospect — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 21 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Mount Prospect, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 10 of them sit inside Mount Prospect itself.
The rest sit in Arlington Heights (8), Des Plaines (2), Wheeling Township (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Mount Prospect in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:27 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Mount Prospect
The readers mapped around Mount Prospect break down as 21 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- South Arlington Heights Road — 4 readers
- West Algonquin Road — 2 readers
- East Kensington Road — 2 readers
- South Elmhurst Road — 1 reader
- South Mount Prospect Road — 1 reader
- Morrison Avenue — 1 reader
- West Golf Road — 1 reader
- East Rand Road — 1 reader
- East Central Road — 1 reader
- Rand Road Bikeway — 1 reader
- East Business Center Drive — 1 reader
- East Golf Road — 1 reader
+ 4 more streets and roads mapped around Mount Prospect — all on the live map above.
Mount Prospect IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Mount Prospect IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 36 other agencies.
Mount Prospect in the Cook County picture
Cook County has 1,915 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #823 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 5,185,812 residents and 9,668 road miles. By road density that is 0.20 cameras per road mile, in the top 1.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 14 traffic.
Camera activity around Mount Prospect, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Mount Prospect. Latest change logged Aug 30, 2026.
What’s watching Mount Prospect
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 Mount Prospect — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Mount Prospect (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Mount Prospect
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Mount Prospect, IL
- Mount Prospect renews contract with controversial license plate camera reader outfit
- Mount Prospect chief meeting with legislators amid license-plate reader controversy
- Mount Prospect police probed for sharing Illinois license plate reader data in Texas abortion case
What you can do in Mount Prospect
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 Mount Prospect
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).