Flock & ALPR Cameras in Wilmette, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 18 automated license plate readers in and around Wilmette — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 19 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Wilmette, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 9 of them sit inside Wilmette itself.
The rest sit in Skokie (8), Evanston (2).
5 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (5). 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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- Sep 13 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 12 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
- Sep 10 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 10 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Wilmette
The readers mapped around Wilmette break down as 17 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2023; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Old Orchard Drive — 6 readers
- Old Glenview Road — 2 readers
- Lavergne Avenue — 1 reader
- Isabella Street — 1 reader
- Maple Avenue — 1 reader
- Crawford Avenue — 1 reader
- Green Bay Road — 1 reader
- Ridge Road — 1 reader
- Sprucewood Lane — 1 reader
- Skokie Boulevard — 1 reader
- Golf Road — 1 reader
Wilmette IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Wilmette IL PD runs 23 cameras of its own, has logged 346 plate-database searches. Its network connects to 151 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Glencoe IL PD, GPSDC (Glenview Dispatch), Lincolnwood IL PD, Morton Grove IL PD, Niles IL PD.
Wilmette 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 15 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (5).
Camera activity around Wilmette, last 30 days
2 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Wilmette. Latest change logged Sep 10, 2026.
What’s watching Wilmette
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 Wilmette — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Wilmette (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Wilmette
- Wilmette Residents Push Back on Proposed Flock Camera Contract Extension
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Wilmette, IL
- Wilmette Safety Committee To Discuss Flock Camera Contract Renewal
- In the minutes: Wilmette meeting, AUTOMATED LICENSE PLATE (Jan 12)
What you can do in Wilmette
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 Wilmette
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).