Flock & ALPR Cameras in Vernon Hills, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 27 automated license plate readers in and around Vernon Hills — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 27 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Vernon Hills, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 18 of them sit inside Vernon Hills itself.
The rest sit in Buffalo Grove (2), Lincolnshire (2), Long Grove (2), Mundelein (2).
3 of them name an operator in the record: Buffalo Grove Police Department (1), Mellody Farms (1), Vernon Hills Police Department (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Vernon Hills in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Vernon Hills
The readers mapped around Vernon Hills break down as 26 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Mellody Farms, Buffalo Grove Police Department, Vernon Hills Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Townline Road — 7 readers
- Milwaukee Avenue — 2 readers
- Port Clinton Road — 2 readers
- Ravenna Drive — 2 readers
- Fairway Drive — 2 readers
- Wendy's Drive Thru — 1 reader
- Mundelein Road — 1 reader
- Buffalo Grove Road Bike Path — 1 reader
- Ring Drive — 1 reader
- Half Day Road Bike Paths — 1 reader
- North Buffalo Grove Road — 1 reader
- Vernon Hills — 1 reader
+ 5 more streets and roads mapped around Vernon Hills — all on the live map above.
Vernon Hills IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Vernon Hills IL PD runs 34 cameras of its own, has captured 493,803 vehicle records. Its network connects to 39 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Vernon Hills 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 23 traffic, 2 street. Operators named on the record: Mellody Farms (1), Buffalo Grove Police Department (1), Vernon Hills Police Department (1).
Camera activity around Vernon Hills, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Vernon Hills. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.
What’s watching Vernon Hills
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 Vernon Hills — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Vernon Hills (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Vernon Hills
- On the agenda: Vernon Hills meeting — FLOCK SAFETY (Jun 16)
- On the agenda: Vernon Hills meeting — ALPR (Jan 13)
- Vernon Hills expands use of automated license plate readers
- License plate reader credited with an assist in solving Vernon Hills burglary
What you can do in Vernon Hills
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 Vernon Hills
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).