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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Prestbury, Illinois

Volunteers have reported 13 automated license plate readers in and around Prestbury — 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 Prestbury, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Prestbury itself.

The rest sit in Aurora (8), North Aurora (2), Sugar Grove (2), Sugar Grove Township (1).

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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13
Reported cameras nearby
#208
of 636 Illinois cities tracked
0.2%
of Illinois’s reported cameras
Live camera map 13 reported cameras around Prestbury, Illinois
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Prestbury

No new reports near Prestbury in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:13 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Prestbury

The readers mapped around Prestbury break down as 11 Flock Safety, 2 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.

  • Orchard Road — 4 readers
  • West Galena Boulevard — 2 readers
  • IL 56 — 2 readers
  • West Indian Trail — 2 readers
  • Bliss Road — 1 reader
  • Virgil Gilman Trail — 1 reader
  • West Illinois Avenue — 1 reader

Prestbury in the Kane County picture

Kane County has 160 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #988 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 516,097 residents and 1,989 road miles. By road density that is 0.08 cameras per road mile, in the top 6.5% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 11 traffic.

Camera activity around Prestbury, last 30 days

1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Prestbury. Latest change logged Aug 24, 2026.

What’s watching Prestbury

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 Prestbury — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Prestbury (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

What you can do in Prestbury

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.

Cameras near Prestbury

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).