Flock & ALPR Cameras in Northlake, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 13 automated license plate readers in and around Northlake — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 13 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Northlake, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 9 of them sit inside Northlake itself.
The rest sit in Leyden Township (2), Elmhurst (1), Franklin Park (1).
4 of them name an operator in the record: Cook County Sheriff's Office (2), Cook County Serrif (1), Northlake Police Department (1). 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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No new reports near Northlake in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 12:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Northlake
The readers mapped around Northlake break down as 13 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Cook County Sheriff's Office, Northlake Police Department, Cook County Serrif. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- North Mannheim Road — 3 readers
- North Wolf Road — 2 readers
- Montana Avenue — 1 reader
- Wagner Drive — 1 reader
- East Armitage Avenue — 1 reader
- County Line Road — 1 reader
- West North Avenue — 1 reader
- West Lake Street — 1 reader
- Midland Trail — 1 reader
- West Grand Avenue — 1 reader
Northlake IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Northlake IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 20 other agencies.
Northlake 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 11 traffic. Operators named on the record: Cook County Sheriff's Office (2), Northlake Police Department (1), Cook County Serrif (1).
Camera activity around Northlake, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Northlake. Latest change logged Aug 29, 2026.
What’s watching Northlake
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 Northlake — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Northlake (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Northlake
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 Northlake
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).