Flock & ALPR Cameras in Sugar Grove, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 6 automated license plate readers in and around Sugar Grove — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Sugar Grove in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Sugar Grove
The readers mapped around Sugar Grove break down as 6 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Cross Street — 1 reader
- East Park Avenue — 1 reader
- Dugan Road — 1 reader
- US 30 — 1 reader
- US 30;IL 47 — 1 reader
- Capitol Drive — 1 reader
Sugar Grove IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Sugar Grove IL PD runs 7 cameras of its own, has logged 20 plate-database searches, has captured 174,548 vehicle records. Its network connects to 14 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Sugar Grove 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 6 traffic.
What’s watching Sugar Grove
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 Sugar Grove — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Sugar Grove (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Sugar Grove
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 Sugar Grove
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).