Flock & ALPR Cameras in Northfield, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 29 automated license plate readers in and around Northfield — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 29 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Northfield, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 12 of them sit inside Northfield itself.
The rest sit in Northbrook (9), Glenview (3), Wilmette (2), Winnetka (2), Glencoe (1).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (2). 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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- Sep 27 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Northfield
The readers mapped around Northfield break down as 29 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- Willow Road — 5 readers
- Waukegan Road — 3 readers
- Frontage Road — 3 readers
- Tower Road — 2 readers
- Happ Road — 2 readers
- Founders Drive — 2 readers
- Northbrook — 2 readers
- Driftwood Lane — 1 reader
- Voltz Road — 1 reader
- Skokie Boulevard — 1 reader
- Illinois Road — 1 reader
- Westleigh Drive — 1 reader
+ 5 more streets and roads mapped around Northfield — all on the live map above.
Northfield IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Northfield IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 50 other agencies.
Northfield 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 27 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (2).
What’s watching Northfield
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 Northfield — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Northfield (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Northfield
- On the agenda: Northfield meeting — public safety camera (Aug 25)
- Northfield adds license-plate readers, additional police officer — plus, updates on Skokie Valley Trail's funding, dispensary's opening and Happ Road's roundabout
What you can do in Northfield
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 Northfield
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).