Flock & ALPR Cameras in Round Lake Heights, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Round Lake Heights — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 5 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Round Lake Heights, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 2 of them sit inside Round Lake Heights itself.
The rest sit in Round Lake Beach (2), Lake Villa (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Round Lake Heights in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 22:05 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Round Lake Heights
The readers mapped around Round Lake Heights break down as 4 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- North Cedar Lake Road — 1 reader
- Round Lake Beach — 1 reader
- Bauer Drive — 1 reader
- West Black Cherry Lane — 1 reader
- West Rollins Road — 1 reader
Round Lake Heights in the Lake County picture
Lake County has 346 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #549 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 711,885 residents and 2,737 road miles. By road density that is 0.13 cameras per road mile, in the top 3.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 3 traffic, 1 street.
Camera activity around Round Lake Heights, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Round Lake Heights. Latest change logged Sep 6, 2026.
What’s watching Round Lake 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 Round Lake Heights — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Round Lake Heights (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Round Lake 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 Round Lake Heights
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).