Flock & ALPR Cameras in Northbrook, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 23 automated license plate readers in and around Northbrook — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 23 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Northbrook, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 17 of them sit inside Northbrook itself.
The rest sit in Glenview (6).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Northbrook in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 16:20 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Northbrook
The readers mapped around Northbrook break down as 23 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Bridlewood Road — 3 readers
- Voltz Road — 2 readers
- Willow Road — 2 readers
- Cherry Lane — 2 readers
- Shermer Road — 2 readers
- Sanders Road — 2 readers
- Cotswold Way — 2 readers
- Woodlark Drive — 1 reader
- Patriot Boulevard — 1 reader
- Waukegan Road — 1 reader
- Prince Street — 1 reader
- Landwehr Road — 1 reader
+ 3 more streets and roads mapped around Northbrook — all on the live map above.
Northbrook IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Northbrook IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 69 other agencies.
Northbrook 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 20 traffic, 1 street.
Camera activity around Northbrook, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Northbrook. Latest change logged Sep 4, 2026.
What’s watching Northbrook
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 Northbrook — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Northbrook (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Northbrook
What you can do in Northbrook
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 Northbrook
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).