Flock & ALPR Cameras in Rolling Meadows, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 42 automated license plate readers in and around Rolling Meadows — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 41 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Rolling Meadows, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 20 of them sit inside Rolling Meadows itself.
The rest sit in Schaumburg (13), Arlington Heights (7), Palatine Township (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Rolling Meadows in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:25 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Rolling Meadows
The readers mapped around Rolling Meadows break down as 28 Flock Safety, 8 Motorola Solutions, 5 Genetec. The first camera here was reported in Jul 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Meijer Drive — 7 readers
- Progress Parkway — 3 readers
- West Algonquin Road — 2 readers
- West Northwest Highway — 2 readers
- Zurich Way — 2 readers
- Thoreau Drive North — 2 readers
- Briarwood Lane — 2 readers
- Meadow Lane — 2 readers
- Golf Road — 2 readers
- Westwood Lane — 1 reader
- Algonquin Parkway — 1 reader
- Parkside Drive — 1 reader
+ 14 more streets and roads mapped around Rolling Meadows — all on the live map above.
Rolling Meadows IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Rolling Meadows IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 70 other agencies.
Rolling Meadows 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 30 traffic.
Camera activity around Rolling Meadows, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Rolling Meadows. Latest change logged Aug 31, 2026.
What’s watching Rolling Meadows
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 Rolling Meadows — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Rolling Meadows (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Rolling Meadows
- Rolling Meadows residents, officials debate continued use of Flock cameras]]>
- Flock camera controversy: Rolling Meadows, Illinois residents, officials debate use of Flock cameras tracking license plates
- On the agenda: Rolling Meadows meeting — Flock Camera (Aug 25)
What you can do in Rolling Meadows
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 Rolling Meadows
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).