Flock & ALPR Cameras in South Elgin, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 20 automated license plate readers in and around South Elgin — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 20 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of South Elgin, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 6 of them sit inside South Elgin itself.
The rest sit in Elgin (12), Bartlett (1), St. Charles Township (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 9 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 9 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 7 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 7 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in South Elgin
The readers mapped around South Elgin break down as 21 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Longcommon Parkway — 4 readers
- College Green Drive — 4 readers
- Randall Road — 2 readers
- Sports Way — 2 readers
- Fox River Trail — 1 reader
- Courier Avenue — 1 reader
- McLean Boulevard — 1 reader
- Bartlett Road — 1 reader
- Illinois Prairie Path Elgin Branch — 1 reader
- McDonald Road — 1 reader
- Gyorr Avenue — 1 reader
- Torrey Pines Drive — 1 reader
+ 1 more streets and roads mapped around South Elgin — all on the live map above.
South Elgin IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, South Elgin IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 74 other agencies.
South Elgin 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 12 traffic.
Camera activity around South Elgin, last 30 days
15 newly reported, 2 removed in our hourly change log for South Elgin. Latest change logged Sep 9, 2026.
What’s watching South Elgin
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 South Elgin — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to South Elgin (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around South Elgin
- 2 new license plate readers reported around South Elgin, IL
- 2 new license plate readers reported around South Elgin, IL
- 7 new license plate readers reported around South Elgin, IL
- 2 new license plate readers reported around South Elgin, IL
What you can do in South Elgin
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 South Elgin
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).