17 Flock ALPRs
Huntley approved a four-year Flock Safety lease in 2023 for 17 license-plate readers at a reported total cost of $187,150, intended for major thoroughfares entering and leaving the village.
LOCAL SURVEILLANCE · MCHENRY COUNTY / HUNTLEY, ILLINOIS
McHenry County surveillance, agency by agency.
This file documents surveillance systems tied to local agencies through government reports, procurement records, public meetings, public records, and clearly identified secondary sources.
HUNTLEY POLICE DEPARTMENT
ALPR, vehicle fingerprinting, body cameras, and drones.
Vehicle fingerprinting
Huntley's presentation described searchable plate number, make, model, color, and unique features including bumper stickers, decals, and roof racks, and described Flock as producing leads through a vehicle's “fingerprint.”
Axon body cameras
Public documentation reports Huntley outfitted officers with Axon body-worn cameras in 2023 as part of the same period of technology upgrades.
Two police drones
Illinois' State Fiscal Year 2024 Freedom from Drone Surveillance Act report lists Huntley Police as owning two drones and reports 38 flights during the reporting period.
SOURCE NOTE
The Flock deployment and vehicle-attribute description are supported by Huntley's public-board record and contemporaneous reporting. Drone inventory and flight totals come from Illinois' statewide statutory drone report.
MCHENRY COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE
ALPR, drones, and networked video evidence.
Body + in-car video
A McHenry County project report allocated $2.09 million for body cameras, in-car cameras, and Tasers for patrol deputies and states the equipment works together on one system with material stored in Evidence.com.
Two sheriff's drones
The SFY 2024 statewide drone report is indexed as showing two McHenry County Sheriff's Office drones and 24 flights during the reporting period.
ALPR use since 2022
The EFF Atlas of Surveillance records McHenry County Sheriff's Office use of automated license-plate readers beginning in 2022, based on local reporting. The underlying sheriff procurement or policy record is not in the current archive.
ALPR vendor and current configuration
The material currently collected here does not establish the Sheriff's current ALPR vendor, reader count, locations, retention configuration, sharing network, or authorized-user count.
COUNTYWIDE INDEXING
Additional reported ALPR deployments.
Public surveillance indexes identify additional ALPR deployments in McHenry, Lake in the Hills, Woodstock, Crystal Lake, and Johnsburg. These entries are supported here as secondary-source leads; underlying agency records are not included in the current source set.
UNRESOLVED
Not established by the published records.
For Huntley, the current source set does not establish the complete Flock inventory and locations, current ALPR policy, retention configuration, sharing settings, audit results, authorized-user count, or complete UAS records. For the Sheriff's Office, it does not establish the current ALPR vendor and inventory, retention and sharing configuration, audit results, or the underlying Evidence.com/Axon agreements.
McHenry County publishes Sheriff's FOIA contact information for records requests.
McHenry County FOIA information