Flock & ALPR Cameras in Sycamore, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 28 automated license plate readers in and around Sycamore — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 28 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Sycamore, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 26 of them sit inside Sycamore itself.
The rest sit in DeKalb (1), DeKalb Township (1).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Northwestern Medicine (2). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 5, 2026 Sycamore — City Council Oct 5, 2026
Every record for this area on the Docket → · nothing is ever deleted.
No new reports near Sycamore in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 13:25 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Sycamore
The readers mapped around Sycamore break down as 36 Flock Safety, 3 Genetec, 2 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Northwestern Medicine. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Willow Street — 7 readers
- Mercantile Drive — 5 readers
- Coltonville Road — 4 readers
- DeKalb Avenue — 3 readers
- West Peace Road — 3 readers
- Bethany Road — 2 readers
- South Peace Road — 2 readers
- Puri Parkway — 2 readers
- Eastgate Drive — 2 readers
- Fairland Drive — 2 readers
- East Stonehenge Drive — 2 readers
- Somonauk Street — 1 reader
+ 10 more streets and roads mapped around Sycamore — all on the live map above.
Sycamore IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Sycamore IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 88 other agencies.
Sycamore in the DeKalb County picture
DeKalb County has 60 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #378 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 17.6% nationally. That’s across 100,512 residents and 984 road miles. By road density that is 0.06 cameras per road mile, in the top 10% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 45 traffic. Operators named on the record: Northwestern Medicine (2).
What’s watching Sycamore
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 Sycamore — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Sycamore (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Sycamore
- Sycamore — City Council Oct 5, 2026
- 17 license plate readers reported removed near Sycamore, IL
- 15 license plate readers reported removed near Sycamore, IL
- 6 new license plate readers reported around Sycamore, IL
What you can do in Sycamore
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 Sycamore
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).