Flock & ALPR Cameras in Prospect Heights, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 15 automated license plate readers in and around Prospect Heights — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 15 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Prospect Heights, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 5 of them sit inside Prospect Heights itself.
The rest sit in Mount Prospect (6), Glenview (3), Arlington Heights (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Prospect Heights in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 19:22 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Prospect Heights
The readers mapped around Prospect Heights break down as 15 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Milwaukee Avenue — 3 readers
- South Wolf Road — 2 readers
- North Wheeling Road — 2 readers
- East Rand Road — 1 reader
- Seminole Lane — 1 reader
- West Camp McDonald Road — 1 reader
- West Lake Avenue — 1 reader
- Boxwood Drive — 1 reader
- East Euclid Avenue — 1 reader
- North Wolf Road — 1 reader
- North Des Plaines River Road — 1 reader
Prospect Heights IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Prospect Heights IL PD runs 19 cameras of its own, has logged 44 plate-database searches, has captured 242,325 vehicle records. Its network connects to 479 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Adams County IL SO, Addison IL PD, Antioch IL PD, Arcola IL PD, Arlington Heights IL PD, Athens IL PD, Attorney General of Illinois - Medicare Fraud Division, Auburn IL PD.
Prospect Heights 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 Prospect Heights, last 30 days
1 removed in our hourly change log for Prospect Heights. Latest change logged Aug 30, 2026.
What’s watching Prospect Heights
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 Prospect Heights — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Prospect Heights (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Prospect Heights
What you can do in Prospect Heights
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.
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Cameras near Prospect Heights
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).