Flock & ALPR Cameras in Woodstock, Illinois
Volunteers have reported 20 automated license plate readers in and around Woodstock — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 20 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Woodstock, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 16 of them sit inside Woodstock itself.
The rest sit in Bull Valley (1), Hartland (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
2 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 11 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Woodstock
The readers mapped around Woodstock break down as 18 Flock Safety, 2 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- US 14 — 2 readers
- Cass Street — 2 readers
- East Van Buren Street — 2 readers
- Kishwaukee Valley Road — 1 reader
- North Seminary Avenue — 1 reader
- Country Club Road — 1 reader
- Dean Street — 1 reader
- Franklinville Road — 1 reader
- North Benton Street — 1 reader
- West Washington Street — 1 reader
- Alden Road — 1 reader
- Greenwood Road — 1 reader
+ 5 more streets and roads mapped around Woodstock — all on the live map above.
Woodstock IL PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Woodstock IL PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 65 other agencies.
Woodstock in the McHenry County picture
McHenry County has 111 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #867 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 311,366 residents and 1,878 road miles. By road density that is 0.06 cameras per road mile, in the top 10.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 7 traffic, 3 park , 3 park. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (1).
Camera activity around Woodstock, last 30 days
2 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Woodstock. Latest change logged Sep 11, 2026.
What’s watching Woodstock
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 Woodstock — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Woodstock (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Woodstock
- Organizers say 100-150 people carry umbrellas during Pride-hosted protest against Flock cameras in Woodstock
- 'Dismantling of constitutional rights': Residents pack city council meeting to demand removal of Flock cameras in Woodstock
- Community members call for removal of Flock cameras in Woodstock, prompting city to release 'transparency portal'
- On the agenda: Woodstock meeting — Flock Safety (Aug 4)
What you can do in Woodstock
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 Woodstock
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).