Flock & ALPR Cameras in Wood Dale, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 20 automated license plate readers in and around Wood Dale — 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 Wood Dale, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 15 of them sit inside Wood Dale itself.
The rest sit in Bensenville (4).
14 of them name an operator in the record: Wood Dale Police Department (13), Bensenville Police Department (1). 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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No new reports near Wood Dale in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 19:25 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Wood Dale
The readers mapped around Wood Dale break down as 19 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Wood Dale Police Department, Bensenville Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- North Wood Dale Road — 3 readers
- Irving Park Road — 3 readers
- Foster Avenue — 2 readers
- North Central Avenue — 2 readers
- East Thorndale Avenue — 2 readers
- Salt Creek Trail — 1 reader
- North Edgewood Avenue — 1 reader
- East Commercial Street — 1 reader
- Bryn Mawr Avenue — 1 reader
- East Stoneham Street — 1 reader
- Elmhurst Street — 1 reader
- Bensenville — 1 reader
Wood Dale IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Wood Dale IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 75 other agencies.
Wood Dale in the DuPage County picture
DuPage County has 626 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #278 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 13% nationally. That’s across 927,263 residents and 2,444 road miles. By road density that is 0.26 cameras per road mile, in the top 0.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 19 traffic. Operators named on the record: Wood Dale Police Department (13), Bensenville Police Department (1).
Camera activity around Wood Dale, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Wood Dale. Latest change logged Aug 17, 2026.
What’s watching Wood Dale
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 Wood Dale — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Wood Dale (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Wood Dale
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 Wood Dale
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).