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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Streamwood, Illinois

Volunteers have reported 24 automated license plate readers in and around Streamwood — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 23 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Streamwood, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 9 of them sit inside Streamwood itself.

The rest sit in Hoffman Estates (6), South Barrington (4), Schaumburg (3), Elgin (1).

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

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Reported cameras nearby
#79
of 636 Illinois cities tracked
0.3%
of Illinois’s reported cameras
Live camera map 24 reported cameras around Streamwood, 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 Streamwood

No new reports near Streamwood in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 12:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Streamwood

The readers mapped around Streamwood break down as 21 Flock Safety, 1 Genetec, 1 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.

  • West Schaumburg Road — 3 readers
  • Laurel Oaks Drive — 3 readers
  • West Higgins Road — 2 readers
  • Hoffman Boulevard — 2 readers
  • Golf Road — 2 readers
  • New Sutton Road — 1 reader
  • South Sutton Road — 1 reader
  • Hilliard Drive — 1 reader
  • North Park Boulevard — 1 reader
  • East Bode Road — 1 reader
  • West Golf Road — 1 reader
  • Bartlett Road — 1 reader

+ 4 more streets and roads mapped around Streamwood — all on the live map above.

Streamwood IL PD and the sharing network

Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Streamwood IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 26 other agencies.

Streamwood 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 21 traffic.

Camera activity around Streamwood, last 30 days

5 newly reported in our hourly change log for Streamwood. Latest change logged Sep 4, 2026.

What’s watching Streamwood

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

The latest around Streamwood

What you can do in Streamwood

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 Streamwood

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