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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Round Lake, Illinois

Volunteers have reported 1 automated license plate readers in and around Round Lake — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 1 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Round Lake, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Round Lake itself.

The rest sit in Round Lake Park (1).

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

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Reported cameras nearby
#593
of 636 Illinois cities tracked
0.1%
of Illinois’s reported cameras
Live camera map 1 reported cameras around Round Lake, 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 Round Lake

No new reports near Round Lake in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 21:20 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Round Lake

The readers mapped around Round Lake break down as 1 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to May 2026.

  • East Main Street — 1 reader

Round Lake 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 1 traffic.

What’s watching Round Lake

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

The latest around Round Lake

What you can do in Round Lake

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 Round Lake

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