Flock & ALPR Cameras in Wauconda, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 1 automated license plate readers in and around Wauconda — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 1 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Wauconda, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Wauconda itself.
The rest sit in Hawthorn Woods (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Wauconda in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:26 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Wauconda
The readers mapped around Wauconda break down as 1 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Jun 2026.
- North Rand Road — 1 reader
Wauconda IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Wauconda IL PD runs 3 cameras of its own, has logged 52 plate-database searches, has captured 202,567 vehicle records. Its network connects to 1,478 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Acworth GA PD, Ada County ID SO, Adams County IL SO, Adams County IN SO, Adams County WI SO, Addison IL PD, Adrian MI PD, Albion MI DPS.
Wauconda 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 1 traffic.
What’s watching Wauconda
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 Wauconda — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Wauconda (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Wauconda
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 Wauconda
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).