Kane County
County record. Includes every city and agency within Kane County.
Technology presence
What these categories mean
- ALPR
- Automated license plate readers (ALPR): camera systems that automatically capture, read, and log vehicle license plates with location and time, producing a searchable record of vehicle movements.
- Fixed cameras & RTCC
- Agency-operated fixed video cameras and the real-time crime centers (RTCC) that aggregate live and recorded feeds for monitoring. Extends the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Atlas, which enumerates real-time crime centers and camera registries but not standalone fixed-camera estates.
- Face recognition
- Software that matches faces in images or video against a reference database to identify or verify individuals.
- Drones / UAS
- Uncrewed aerial systems (UAS), commonly called drones, operated by an agency for overhead observation, imaging, or sensing.
- Gunshot detection
- Networks of acoustic sensors that detect and locate suspected gunfire and alert an agency.
- Body-worn & dashcam
- Officer body-worn and in-vehicle dashboard cameras that record encounters; public access to the footage is frequently restricted.
- Doorbell & camera registry
- Programs that give an agency access to privately owned camera footage: doorbell-camera partnerships, citizen camera registries, and private-camera integration platforms.
- Cell-site simulators
- Devices that mimic cell towers to locate or identify nearby mobile phones. They are often called Stingrays, or IMSI catchers after the international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) number that identifies each phone on a network. Adjacent: communications surveillance outside the visual/sensor core.
- Predictive policing
- Software that forecasts where crime may occur or who may be involved, to direct policing. Adjacent: analytics rather than a sensing deployment.
- Social-media monitoring
- Tools that collect and analyze public social-media activity for an agency. Adjacent: open-source/communications monitoring outside the visual/sensor core.
The record, by agency
Aurora Police Department
The Aurora Police Department operates 22 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
The Aurora Police Department has seven drones, according to the 2024 Illinois Freedom from Drone Surveillance Act Report. The agency conducted 156 drone flights between July 2023 and March 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority
The Aurora City Council approved a $400,000 ShotSpotter contract in February 2022.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Aurora Beacon-News
Fox Valley Park District Police Department
The Fox Valley Park District Police Department operates 10 Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
The Fox Valley Park District Police Department has eight body-worn cameras as of 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board
North Aurora Police Department
The North Aurora Police Department operates six Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
The North Aurora Police Department has four drones, according to the 2024 Illinois Freedom from Drone Surveillance Act Report. The agency conducted 12 drone flights between July 2023 and March 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority
South Elgin Police Department
The South Elgin Police Department operates five Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
The South Elgin Police Department has two drones, according to the 2024 Illinois Freedom from Drone Surveillance Act Report. The agency conducted 43 drone flights between July 2023 and March 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority
Kane County Forest Preserve Public Safety Department
The Kane County Forest Preserve Public Safety Department operates two Flock Safety automated license plate readers as of September 2025.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Pittsboro Police Department
Sugar Grove Police Department
The Sugar Grove Police Department uses Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Flock Safety
The Sugar Grove Police Department received $22,000 from the Bureau of Justice Assistance to purchase 22 body-worn cameras through the 2022 Small, Rural, Tribal BWC Microgrant program.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Small, Rural, and Tribal Body-Worn Camera microgrant grantee list
Elgin Police Department
The Elgin Police Department began using body-worn cameras in June 2017 and have 230 Axon body-worn cameras as of 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards BoardIllinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board
The Elgin Police Department has nine drones, according to the 2024 Illinois Freedom from Drone Surveillance Act Report. The agency conducted 73 drone flights between July 2023 and March 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority
According to reporting from The Markup, the Elgin Police Department used PredPol (now Geolitica) between 2/16/18 and 7/14/20.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): The Markup
Batavia Police Department
The Batavia Police Department has 41 Getac body-worn cameras as of 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board
The Batavia Police Department has one drone according to the 2024 Illinois Freedom from Drone Surveillance Act Report.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority
Carpentersville Police Department
The Carpentersville Police Department has 59 Axon body-worn cameras as of 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board
The Carpentersville Police Department has one drone, according to the 2022 Illinois Freedom from Drome Surveillance Act Report.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): State of Illinois
Elburn Police Department
Elburn Police Department received $27,250 to purchase 20 body-worn cameras through the Small, Rural and Tribal Body-Worn Camera program in 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): SRT BWC Program
The Elburn Police Department has one drone, according to the 2022 Illinois Freedom from Drome Surveillance Act Report.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): State of Illinois
Montgomery Police Department
The Montgomery Police Department has two drones, according to the 2024 Illinois Freedom from Drone Surveillance Act Report. The agency conducted five drone flights between July 2023 and March 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority
The Montgomery Police Department uses 34 body-worn cameras as of 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): WSPY NewsKendall County NowIllinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board
West Dundee Police Department
The West Dundee Police Department has at least 24 Axon body-worn cameras as of 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board
The West Dundee Police Department has one drone, according to the 2022 Illinois Freedom from Drome Surveillance Act Report.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): State of IllinoisCenter for the Study of the Drone at Bard Collegewww.icjia.state.il.us
East Dundee Police Department
The East Dundee Police Department has 20 officers that use body-worn cameras as of 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board
Forest Preserve District of Kane County Public Safety Department
The Forest Preserve District of Kane County Public Safety Department has 10 Getac body-worn cameras as of 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board
Geneva Police Department
The Geneva Police Department has at least 38 Axon body-worn cameras as of 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board
Gilberts Police Department
The Gilberts Police Department uses 18 Kustom Signals body-worn cameras as of 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Justice & Security StrategiesJustice & Security StrategiesIllinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board
Maple Park Police Department
The Maple Park Police Department received a Small, Rural, and Tribal Body-Worn Camera Program grant for $4,495 for 4 body-worn cameras in 2023.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Justice & Security StrategiesJustice & Security Strategies
Pingree Grove Police Department
The Pingree Grove Police Department has 20 body-worn cameras as of 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board
Sleepy Hollow Police Department
Sleepy Hollow Police Department received $12,614 to purchase 16 body-worn cameras through the Small, Rural and Tribal Body-Worn Camera program in 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): SRT BWC Program
St. Charles Police Department
The St. Charles Police Department has 60 Axon body-worn cameras as of 2024.
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board
Kane County Sheriff's Office
The Kane County Sheriff's Office has purchased eight drones, according to the 2022 Illinois Freedom from Drome Surveillance Act Report
Sources (via the EFF Atlas): State of IllinoisCenter for the Study of the Drone at Bard Collegewww.icjia.state.il.us
Source: EFF Atlas of Surveillance (Electronic Frontier Foundation & University of Nevada, Reno — Reynolds School of Journalism) · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved July 2026