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Lake Forest, by camera type.
Lake Forest: 42 plate readers mapped. Nearby: Highland Park 28, Northbrook 36, Waukegan 54 and Gurnee 28.
Speed cameras in Lake Forest
None listed in Lake Forest. Nearest city program in Illinois: Chicago, about 13 mi from the city line (running, as of Oct 2026).
Red light cameras in Lake Forest
None listed in Lake Forest. Nearest city program in Illinois: North Chicago, about 1 mi from the city line (running, checked Oct 23, 2026), not yet on this map.
License plate readers in Lake Forest
42 plate readers are on the map in Lake Forest, and 32 of them carry the Flock Safety tag. Most don't say who runs them. Highland Park Police Department is tagged on 1.
First-mapped dates here run from Jan 5, 2024 to Oct 25, 2026. 25 of the 42 were first mapped in 2025, with 10 in January alone.
The EFF's Atlas of Surveillance lists Lake Forest Police Department as an agency that uses plate readers.
Who can search plate reads in Lake Forest
EyesOnFlock lists no transparency portal for the Lake Forest Police Department (Oct 14, 2026). It posts no sharing list, so who can search reads from its cameras is not stated. The sharing lists of 173 agencies name it, so it can search their reads.
Lake Forest Police Department
- Agencies on its posted sharing list
- Not stated
- Keeps each read for
- Not stated
- Agencies whose reads it can search
- 173
No transparency portal listed, Oct 14, 2026 · See its sharing lists, as of Oct 14, 2026
Get one summary email a month on new plate readers in Lake Forest
Portal figures and sharing lists: EyesOnFlock (CC BY-SA 4.0), from Flock Safety transparency portals.
Traffic cameras in Lake Forest
From Illinois Department of Transportation.
Camera tickets in Lake Forest
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Know when cameras in Lake Forest change.
Free email alerts for cameras on your routes that start issuing tickets. One summary email a month.
- In your monthly summary: the day a camera near you starts issuing tickets
- New cameras mapped or reported near you
- What plate readers keep, and who runs them
- Your street, your distance, the camera types you pick
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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