Illinois State Police
ISP identifies Motorola Solutions as the primary vendor for its statewide ALPR project and publishes annual reports and related agreements.
SURVEILLANCE TECHNOLOGY · VEHICLES
Automated License Plate Readers
ALPR systems turn vehicle observations into searchable records. Illinois records document statewide and local deployments, multiple vendors, statutory restrictions, retention, and data sharing.
Illinois law expressly defines ALPR devices, ALPR information, and multi-agency/vendor ALPR systems. Illinois State Police maintains a public ALPR transparency page with annual reports, statistics, agreements, directives, and its Motorola Solutions contract.
WHAT THE SYSTEM RECORDS
More than a plate number.
Illinois law defines ALPR broadly around the automated capture and comparison of vehicle or plate information. Commercial systems may add vehicle characteristics, timestamps, camera location, hot-list alerts, and other searchable attributes. Agency-specific capabilities are listed only when supported by records.
ILLINOIS DEPLOYMENTS
Statewide and local systems coexist.
Boone County / Belvidere
Local records document Flock Safety ALPR use, Policy 450, retention rules, audits, and Belvidere camera locations.
Huntley
Huntley's public-board process documented a 17-camera Flock deployment and vehicle-attribute searching.
Winnebago County / Rockford
County and city records document separate Flock deployments, including a five-year Sheriff's agreement and a 2026 Rockford Police contract covering Flock software, LPR, and PTZ systems.
DeKalb
DeKalb purchased 12 Genetec readers in 2021 and approved a two-year Flock ALPR service contract in 2026. A separate Axon Fleet 3 agreement also contains mobile ALPR licensing.
Kane County
A 2025 Sheriff's Office renewal documents 25 Flock readers dispersed countywide.
GOVERNANCE
Retention, sharing, access, and enforcement
Retention
How long a vendor hosts detections can differ from how long an agency retains downloaded/exported evidence. NoRec records both when the documents allow it.
Sharing
Illinois law recognizes multi-agency and vendor ALPR systems. A reader's practical reach can therefore exceed the cameras physically owned by one department.
Queries and audits
Policies may require a reason for searches, individual credentials, audit trails, supervisory review, or periodic audits. NoRec treats the existence of an audit requirement separately from evidence that an audit occurred and what it found.
Enforcement
An automated alert and the legal basis for enforcement are separate questions. Relevant agency policy and Illinois law govern verification and subsequent action.
PROVIDERS
Known Illinois relationships.
PRIMARY SOURCES
- 625 ILCS 5/2-130 — ALPR definitions and restrictions
- Illinois State Police — ALPR Transparency Page
- NoRec — Boone County / Belvidere jurisdiction file
- NoRec — McHenry County / Huntley jurisdiction file
- NoRec — Winnebago County / Rockford jurisdiction file
- NoRec — DeKalb County jurisdiction file
- NoRec — Kane County jurisdiction file