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Cameras in Arlington Heights, IL
35 mapped plate readers and 1 traffic camera in Arlington Heights.
Plate readers © OpenStreetMap contributors · © OpenMapTiles
Arlington Heights, by camera type.
Arlington Heights: 35 plate readers mapped. Nearby: Palatine 38, Elk Grove Village 63, Schaumburg 59 and Inverness 26.
Speed cameras in Arlington Heights
None listed in Arlington Heights. Nearest city program in Illinois: Chicago, about 2 mi from the city line (running, as of Oct 2026).
Red light cameras in Arlington Heights
None listed in Arlington Heights. Neighboring Rolling Meadows runs one (running, checked Oct 23, 2026), not yet on this map.
License plate readers in Arlington Heights
35 plate readers are on the map in Arlington Heights, and 33 of them carry the Flock Safety tag. Most don't say who runs them.
First-mapped dates here run from Jun 21, 2025 to Oct 9, 2026. 20 of the 35 were first mapped in 2026, with 7 in June alone.
The EFF's Atlas of Surveillance lists Arlington Heights Police Department as an agency that uses plate readers.
Who can search plate reads in Arlington Heights
The Arlington Heights Police Department’s transparency portal does not list who can search its plate reads (Oct 14, 2026). Its portal says it keeps each read for 30 days.
Arlington Heights Police Department
- Agencies on its posted sharing list
- Not stated
- Keeps each read for
- 30 days
- Plate readers its portal lists
- 32
- Agencies whose reads it can search
- 81
Its transparency portal, as of Oct 14, 2026 · See its sharing lists, as of Oct 14, 2026
Get one summary email a month on new plate readers in Arlington Heights
Portal figures and sharing lists: EyesOnFlock (CC BY-SA 4.0), from Flock Safety transparency portals.
Traffic cameras in Arlington Heights
From Illinois Department of Transportation.
Camera tickets in Arlington Heights
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- What plate readers keep, and who runs them
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156,883 cameras listed or mapped so far.
Sources and updates
How this page was made: CamsAhead writes each page type once, then fills it with this place's data from the sources below.
- OpenStreetMap contributors: plate readers, data as of Nov 7, 2026; ODbL 1.0
- EFF Atlas of Surveillance: agencies that use plate readers, data as of Aug 2026; CC BY 4.0
- Illinois Department of Transportation: Camera locations: Illinois DOT, CC BY-SA 2.0. Read November 7, 2026.
- US Census Bureau: city boundary (cartographic file 2025)
Plate reader points are mapped by OpenStreetMap volunteers (data as of November 7, 2026).
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