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Cameras in Palatine, IL
38 mapped plate readers, 2 traffic cameras and a red light camera program in Palatine.
Plate readers © OpenStreetMap contributors · © OpenMapTiles
Palatine, by camera type.
Palatine: 38 plate readers mapped. Nearby: Inverness 26, Arlington Heights 35, Schaumburg 59 and South Barrington 61.
Speed cameras in Palatine
None listed in Palatine. Nearest city program in Illinois: Chicago, about 7 mi from the city line (running, as of Oct 2026).
Red light cameras in Palatine
Palatine runs a red light camera program (running, checked Oct 23, 2026), not yet on this map.
- Red light cameras · Running (checked Oct 23, 2026) Village of Palatine ↗ · current status not dated
The law, in short:
625 ILCS 5/11-208.6 (red light), 5/11-208.8 (speed safety zones, cities at least 1M only), work zones (citation not yet confirmed).
License plate readers in Palatine
38 plate readers are on the map in Palatine, and 38 of them carry the Flock Safety tag. Most don't say who runs them.
First-mapped dates here run from Aug 16, 2025 to Oct 21, 2026. 20 of the 38 were first mapped in 2025, with 7 in August alone.
The EFF's Atlas of Surveillance lists Palatine Police Department as an agency that uses plate readers.
Who can search plate reads in Palatine
The Palatine 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.
Palatine Police Department
- Agencies on its posted sharing list
- Not stated
- Keeps each read for
- 30 days
- Plate readers its portal lists
- 28
- Agencies whose reads it can search
- 60
Its transparency portal, as of Oct 14, 2026 · See its sharing lists, as of Oct 14, 2026
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Portal figures and sharing lists: EyesOnFlock (CC BY-SA 4.0), from Flock Safety transparency portals.
Traffic cameras in Palatine
From Illinois Department of Transportation.
Camera tickets in Palatine
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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.
- Village of Palatine: red light camera program, running, checked Oct 23, 2026
- 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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