Cameras / Illinois / Lake Forest
License plate readers in Lake Forest, IL
Volunteers have documented 42 automated license plate readers inside Lake Forest. That is the 22nd-largest total among the 183 Illinois cities indexed here, and 0.5% of the statewide total. At 2.4 per square mile it is more densely covered than 65% of the 2,432 US cities indexed nationally. Flock Safety accounts for 76% of them. Every mount volunteers recorded here is the same kind: poles.
Checked against OpenStreetMap November 13, 2026 · figures last changed October 26, 2026.
42
readers documented
2.4
per square mile
22nd
of 183 indexed Illinois cities · 568th of 2,432 nationally
0.5%
of Illinois’s documented total
Dot colors follow the manufacturer legend below. Boundary: U.S. Census Bureau, 2025 Cartographic Boundary Files. Locations: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 32 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Flock Safety (2), Highland Park Police Department (1), HPPD (1). All 720 recorded ALPR operators, ranked →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (18)
- Coverage area
- 17.2 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: How to spot a Flock Safety camera · How ALPRs work · Can you opt out? · Illinois's ALPR statute
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