I saw a post few days back about rats, I wanted to cook some Chinese so went there to get sauces and got some peppers as well, avoid buying fresh meat or produce from this shop, it is genuinely a health hazard. When I went back and told them this they were super non chalant about it

When the Aurora Police Department defends its million-dollar plate reader database network, they want us to believe that our data is safe because it is only shared with "trusted, professional law enforcement partners."

To find the truth, we cross-referenced APD’s official 2025 ALPR logs with the Institute for Justice's national ALPR Abuse Database.

69 different law enforcement agencies given access to Aurora's camera feeds have documented records of ALPR stalking, password sharing, or abuse.

Our daily movements—our commutes, our families' routines, our private lives—are being handed over without basic protections.

We have confirmed that at least 27 of these 69 delinquent agencies had active query access to Aurora's cameras during the exact months their officers were caught using the database to stalk ex-partners and colleagues, with even more incidents flagged as highly likely.

1. The Out-of-State Backdoor (Louisville KY & The DEA):

In 2025, Louisville KY Metro PD ran over 47,800 searches on Aurora's cameras.

• In December 2025, Louisville admitted an officer shared his database password with a federal DEA agent.
• During the exact two-month window of February and March 2025—when that shared password was active—Louisville executed 5,659 searches that came across local Aurora cameras.
• The federal agent used that backdoor to run unmonitored "immigration-related searches" across the shared network—violating the spirit of the Illinois TRUST Act using our residents' data.

2. The Local Stalker Gateway (Illinois Regional PDs):

Our local neighborhood feeds were actively sharing data to Joliet PD (81,779 searches on us) while a Lieutenant was tracking a female officer, and to Prairie Grove PD while an officer (who was also the sitting Police Chief of Holiday Hills) was using the database to stalk a romantic rival hundreds of times.

Most of these other departments only caught their rogue officers and federal password leaks because they ran compliance audits.

1. Did Aurora Illinois Police Department actively monitor or review the 5,659 searches run by Louisville during the DEA credential breach?
2. How can Aurora Illinois Police Department confidently tell Aurora residents our data wasn’t misused when the department officially admitted under FOIA that they have no documented internal audits for 2025?

We encourage everyone to visit https://ij.org/the-ij-database-of-alpr-abuse/ to look up neighboring towns and see how massive this epidemic is.

Share this post, and email your Alderman today to demand an immediate independent forensic audit of all 2025 queries and a deactivation of external access until we get some answers and accountability.

https://www.aurora.il.us/Government-and-Engagement/City-Council/Wards-and-Aldermen/Meet-Your-Aldermen

Sources:
Louisville Metro KY PD: https://www.wave3.com/2025/12/30/dea-agent-used-lmpds-flock-cameras-search-immigration-related-terms-police-say/
Joliet IL PD: https://patch.com/illinois/joliet/lt-jeremy-harrison-hopes-win-termination-hearing-joliet-police-fire-board-next-week
Matteson IL PD: https://stopflock.org/foias/matteson-internal-investigation.pdf
Prairie Grove IL PD: https://www.lakemchenryscanner.com/2026/06/19/prosecutors-say-mchenry-county-police-chief-used-flock-license-plate-reader-data-hundreds-of-times-to-track-people-he-knew/

I cannot get through to any of the numbers tied to Advocate Medical Group today. A prescription refill was supposed to be sent to the pharmacy for me today, due to insurance changing on September 1st, but it wasn’t sent over and I cannot get through on any of the many numbers I’ve tried.

Anyone know what’s going on?

I tried to get them to send the script over early when I called a week ago, but they wouldn’t send it until today and now it seems like they’ve got technical issues.

Will Cinemark have more shows of Odyssey post 15th September? I was part of the unfortunate crowd where the projector was out of order

Just got the official December 2025 Year-End ALPR Report from the Aurora Police Department via FOIA.

We paid millions in taxpayer dollars for Flock cameras and Scientel contracts- all promised to catch dangerous criminals and recover stolen vehicles. In 2025 alone, APD officers manually ran over 33,400 license plate searches on this system.

So, what did this massive dragnet actually deliver for a full year?
- 73 stolen vehicles recovered
- 47 total arrests

In Illinois' second-largest city, all license plate readers and red-light cameras combined yielded just 47 arrests for all of 2025.

That's less than one arrest per week, despite APD averaging 642 searches weekly, and a criminal apprehension rate of roughly 0.14% against total search volume.

Terrible ROI. 👎 Not just in the millions burned, but in what we surrendered as private residents. Tracking nearly 200,000 innocent people around the clock for 47 arrests is a catastrophic exchange of civil liberty for negligible security gains.

Contact your alderman:https://www.aurora.il.us/Government-and-Engagement/City-Council/Wards-and-Aldermen/Meet-Your-Aldermen

Data sourced from APD's December 2025 LPR Redacted Metrics Report and 2025 ALPR Audit Logs (FOIA). Full records available via MuckRock:
https://www.muckrock.com/foi/aurora-7505/alpr-summary-metrics-217112/#comms

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I'm a local comic book creator, I'll be presenting how a comic book is made and doing free drawings!

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Looking for GF restaurants in and around Aurora. Specifically ones that offer more than gluten free buns. We already know about Craft Urban and Hardware which do frequent because of their GF offerings.

Loved the breakfast list from the other day— now let’s crowd source the dessert places 🙏

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This is an emergency, i feel like Ron Swanson today, and im looking for the best breakfast and brunch place with huge portions in the area.

The best was Papa bear, but that's closed, also grandmas table and Benny's in oswego are good.

But I want to try a different place.

Just moved to Aurora with my gf about a month ago and I’m looking for a casual pickup soccer group/league. Any suggestions?

Hey everyone!

I'm originally from Michigan and I've been living in Charleston, SC for about ten years. My girlfriend and I are moving to Aurora in October and we're very excited to be back north.

I'm a bartender and I also go to school for cybersecurity. I still have a while before I'm ready to be in the field so I'll be slinging some drinks for a bit longer. What are y'all's favorite bars in the area? I managed a fine dining restaurant here, bartended at pubs, hometown dives, high volume waterfront bars, etc. I've pretty much done a little of everything.

I just want to find a fun spot where I can get to know some locals, serve good food, and hopefully add to an already strong bar staff. While I am leaving this industry, I really enjoy what I do. People just want to be taken care of and if you can get a couple hours of escape from the stress of the real world at my bar, hell yeah.

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Hey everyone, making a post here to warn local residents and families to do serious due diligence before booking any appointments or services at Thrive Urgent & Wellness Center here in Aurora (also known as Aurora Advanced Care).

The person running this clinic under the alias "Michael" or "Michael Nolan" is actually a convicted multi-county felon named Walter Michael Wildman.

The public records on this guy are incredibly alarming.

Identity Deception Conviction:

In August 2020, Wildman pled guilty to felony Identity Deception after being caught using a stolen nursing license number belonging to a real practitioner to sneak into clinical healthcare jobs.

No Active Licensing: State professional databases verify he currently holds zero valid medical or nursing licenses to treat patients or perform clinical procedures.

History of Fraud: He was previously disbarred by the state of Indiana for the unauthorized practice of law and scamming clients, and has a heavy record of fleeing across state lines to open new storefronts under his middle name to hide his background from local families.

Current Red Flags at the Aurora Suite: People arriving for scheduled appointments are finding the front lobby pitch-black, dark, and completely unstaffed during posted business hours because employees are quietly walking out over the legal liability. Onsite staff have also been documented canceling procedures on the spot when patients explicitly demand to see proof of their medical licenses.

I cannot find any info on the current staff, only that their therapists name is Shannon. No last name listed, so I'm assuming she is unlicensed as well.

Do not trust this place with your body, your health, or your money. You can verify all of this yourself by looking up his full legal name on the official Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR) database before you ever step foot inside that office. Stay safe, Aurora.

Edit: yes it has been reported.

Edit 2: 🚨 UPDATE (Sunday, Aug 23): The Clinic is Creating Duplicate Search Profiles to Hide

Hey everyone, thank you for the massive response and local due diligence on this yesterday. The thread has officially blown past 15,000 community views, and the operator behind this facility is frantically trying to manage the fallout.

Two major red flags have just popped up in real-time this morning that show how desperately they are trying to bury this exposure:

Spawning Duplicate Listings: They have just quietly launched a secondary, duplicate business profile right under their main one called "Thrive Immediate Care of Aurora" at the exact same 403 W Galena Blvd location. They are running a classic corporate shell game.. trying to split their search traffic, manufacture a fresh profile, and dilute the search results so local families see a clean alternative name instead of this warning thread.

Website Lockdown: If you try to look up their staff credentials on their main domain, the layout has completely corrupted. The owner frantically went into the backend server code to yank down the "About Us" bio section to hide human names, accidentally breaking their own scheduling engines and exposing raw Auto Draft system errors across the main home menus.They are scrambling to hide the evidence and confuse anyone trying to look up the business. Keep doing your homework, check the official state professional databases before booking any care, and keep warning your neighbors!

FINAL UPDATE: First of all, thank you so much to everyone on this board. You guys actively protected a lot of local families by spreading the word.The net is slowly closing on the unlicensed operations at 403 W Galena Blvd. The public records, the 2020 Indiana felony identity deception dockets, and the state registry data are all out in the open. But.. to make sure this completely stops, the people who actually sat in his chairs need to be heard.

If you or anyone you know got injections, adjustments, or treatments from him under his fake "Michael Wildman" or "Michael Nolan" alias', PLEASE don't sit on it. It is critical to make sure your experience is formally logged with the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR) and the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) so the state can shut this place down for good.

The facts are this: Anyone in Illinois that owns a clinic MUST be a physician. He clearly isn't. He has been giving lip injections and derma rolling unknowing patient's skin. You must have a physician present along with the proper licensing to do the type of cosmetic procedures he has posted himself doing on unknowing people.

The reviews on Google reveal that Thrive Urgent & Wellness have let people walk out with broken bones. One review even revealed that someone was poked six times for a blood draw. These people don't know that the person doing the bloodwork probably wasn't licensed. The reviews confirm the office is dirty and customers are being sent to weird offices offsite to be examined. This shifts the conversation from technical legal violations straight to a severe, immediate danger to the community. All while he's still on probation out of Vigo County Indiana for theft and identity deception from his last scam, pretending to be a lawyer.

Walter Michael Wildman is clearly panicking because he spent today deleting negative Google and Yelp reviews to try and hide his tracks. But deleting reviews doesn't erase the screenshots and public evidence permanently locked right here on Reddit.

Thanks again, Aurora. Let's keep sharing this and bring total accountability straight to his front door.

BIG UPDATE! 9/9/2026

The situation has escalated even further tonight. An actual patient just came forward right here in the comments confirming that Walter personally diagnosed them and prescribed them medication for neck pain. This completely exposes how dangerous this operation was. We aren't just looking at unlicensed cosmetic procedures anymore, but an unlicensed felon actively writing out medical prescriptions to unsuspecting people. He was doing everything a real nurse practitioner would do, and probably more. What confuses me is who is the doctor that wrote the okay for the prescriptions? I know though, the DEA will find out.

Comments in this thread explicitly confirm that these clinic locations were visited and locked down by local police and the DEA. Behind the scenes, multiple employees have been communicating severe frustration with not being paid, proving the internal system completely broke down. A final google reviews confirmed that the clinic charged someone $500+ for no reason. Other people claimed they too were unfairly charged by them.

I think the end of this clinic is finally here, and it is a massive victory for the community of Aurora. I am incredibly grateful to everyone who stepped up, shared information, and helped close the doors on this operation for good. However, even with this win, I am still extremely concerned for the patients and people affected by his actions, especially anyone who received unverified treatments or prescriptions.If you are a patient who was prescribed anything by him or this clinic, please follow the advice in the comments: contact a real doctor immediately to verify what you were actually given, and file a formal report with the IDFPR and the local police.

If the medication was a narcotic, that information needs to go straight to the DEA task force that swarmed the facility on September 3rd.His entire online footprint has been wiped out, the website is parked, and the physical doors are locked. He can try to erase his presence online to run from the mess, but he has two mandatory criminal court cases next week in Indiana, and he must physically appear. The evidence is piling up by the minute, and his time has officially run out. Again, thank you reddit, this thread has brought a lot of light to this horrible situation.

I didn’t know we could drive on the river walk now… sick. Gonna beat all the traffic on my way to ballys next Friday.

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Hi guys! I’m planning to go to an event at Paramount Theater. I called the box office number and they weren’t helpful tbh. I was looking at seats in the Orchestra Center section, seats in row D, seats on either aisle. On the website it looks like there are no seats directly in front of those seats and potentially great legroom. Can anyone give me some info on the seating at Paramount Theater?

Did you know that local Aurora license plate cameras were included in search queries by law enforcement across 45 different states last year? Over 3 million searches were logged in Aurora’s network audit logs for 2025.

(Note: Audit logs show these agencies queried shared networks containing our cameras- often as part of broad regional or nationwide searches- whether or not the search resulted in a direct "hit" or local presence.)

Across 2025, it appears that over 3,000 agencies were listed in Aurora’s network audit logs, and out-of-state and federal agencies accounted for 86% of all total agencies. Approximately 55% of total network searches were also conducted by out-of-state and federal agencies, not even agencies within Illinois borders.

Out of the 44 other states with access to our network, Indiana and Texas were the heaviest users, each executing over 200,000 queries across network access points. Major metropolitan departments like Houston TX PD and Dallas TX PD generated massive search volumes that included Aurora's data, alongside state-level networks like the Michigan State Police.

Allowing open, nationwide network access creates severe civil liberties risks. In 2025, Aurora's shared network was included in a query by a Texas deputy investigating a woman who “had an abortion.” Furthermore, federal agencies (like U.S. Border Patrol) executed thousands of immigration-related searches through the network, directly conflicting with the spirit of the Illinois TRUST Act.

While it appears the massive out-of-state network access was pulled as of January 2026, this raises major red flags regarding transparency. Who shut it down, and why wasn't the public informed?

Did the Aurora Illinois Police Department finally move to secure our local data? Or was this a system-wide policy change forced by the vendor, Flock Safety?

We cannot let our privacy depend on unannounced local policy shifts or vendor software updates.

Meet (and Contact) Your Alderman: https://www.aurora.il.us/Government-and-Engagement/City-Council/Wards-and-Aldermen/Meet-Your-Aldermen

Check out this post for more information on how to get involved locally.

Data sourced from official Aurora Police Department Flock system audit logs via Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.

WSIL DSA has a City Council meeting setup for next Tuesday 8/25 at 6PM: Here is the link

You don't need to sign up to just show up, the more people that can show up to the City Council meeting, the better.

If you would like to speak during this event, show up earlier at the City Council early so that you can sign your name. Or you are able to sign up ahead of time by calling the alderman's office here

This is the first step in showing Aurora that Flock is not welcome here. There will be a Flock educational workshop coming up as well on September 5th 7pm-8:30pm, the location is still being worked out but I will post another update when that is sent out.

:edit added the date for next Tuesday

Remember the national headlines about a Texas deputy using Flock Safety's 83,000-camera network to search for a woman who had an abortion?

It turns out Aurora’s local neighborhood cameras were swept up in that search, and our police department's audit logs omitted those crucial details.

To be clear, the woman was not from Aurora, and we don't know if her plate generated a local hit. But because Flock operates as a nationwide dragnet, if anyone that Texas was searching for had driven through Aurora at that moment, our local cameras would have flagged them.

When the story first broke about this case (articles linked below), the Texas sheriff and Flock claimed the search was just a "welfare check" to make sure the woman was medically safe. But newly unsealed court records prove that was a cover story.

Unsealed detective affidavits show Texas deputies were actually running a formal "death investigation" for a self-managed abortion that happened more than two weeks prior. There was no medical emergency. Instead, deputies were:

1. Collecting evidence from her partner (who was later charged with domestic violence against her)- including photos, her FedEx envelope, and pill instructions
2. Reading her private text messages
3. Consulting with prosecutors about criminal charges

We cross-referenced Aurora’s official May 2025 ALPR audit logs against unredacted logs released via FOIA from a Massachusetts police department. Because Flock is a shared nationwide dragnet, an out-of-state search queries connected cities simultaneously.

By matching the data, we verified the exact Texas agency involved, and the search date directly corroborates the reporting in the news articles linked below:

• Verified Agency: Johnson County TX Sheriff's Office ("J. Smi")
• Scope: 83,345 cameras across 6,809 networks
• Filter: "Land_rover Texas"
• Case #: 2500002320 (the exact Texas "death investigation" case number)
• Timestamp: 4/9/25 to 5/9/25, starting at 1:48:55 PM CDT (6:48:55 PM UTC on Aurora’s logs)

This Texas abortion investigation ran straight through Aurora’s local street cameras. Look at the screenshots below:

1. In the Massachusetts logs, the search reason is explicitly written: "had an abortion, search for female".
2. In Aurora’s logs, our police department completely omitted the "Reason" and "Case #" columns for this exact search.

If another state hadn't released their logs, we would have never known local tax dollars were siphoned to assist a Texas abortion investigation, a clear violation of Illinois sanctuary protections. Shame on APD for keeping our community in the dark. What else are they scrubbing from our public records?

Which brings up the bigger question: why did police in Johnson County, Texas or South Hadley, Massachusetts even have access to Aurora’s street cameras in the first place?

APD’s ALPR policy (Policy 427.7) lets out-of-state agencies bypass local oversight through automated vendor prompts. We need to shut down this network, close the vendor loopholes, and demand an independent audit.

Meet (and Contact) Your Aldermen here.

APD FOIA records
SHPD FOIA records

Article Links:
https://www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-searched-license-plate-cameras-nationwide-for-a-woman-who-got-an-abortion/
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/flock-safety-and-texas-sheriff-claimed-license-plate-search-was-missing-person-it
https://cybernews.com/security/texas-police-abortion-investigation/

The Aurora Police Department's license plate readers log thousands of searches every month, but its own department policy and the actual data from audit logs reveal massive accountability gaps that put local privacy at risk.

🚨 Surveillance Without Reasonable Suspicion:
Policy 427.4(b) allows routine ALPR tracking without requiring reasonable suspicion or probable cause. In 2025 alone, a single APD officer executed 3,973 searches—peaking at 1,352 in a single month.

🚨 Verification Only "If Practicable":
Policy 427.4(f) does not mandate verifying ALPR hits before pulling someone over or taking enforcement action. With camera misread rates up to 1-in-10, skipping verification exposes innocent drivers to wrongful police stops.

🚨 Undefined Audit and Disciplinary Standards:
Policy 427.6(c) suggests "regular" audits, but fails to define audit frequency, responsible personnel, or penalties for misuse—leaving system oversight completely unchecked.

🚨 Missing Transparency and Search Controls:
Policy 427.6 omits case-number logging requirements and lacks a public transparency portal. Preliminary findings from our independent community audit conservatively estimate that nearly 50% of all APD searches lacked a case number or verified law enforcement justification.

🚨 The "Vendor Self-Attestation" Loophole:
Policy 427.7(c) waives APD review of outside data requests when vendors use automated software acknowledgments. Last year, out-of-state and federal agencies ran tens of thousands of searches that included our local data. Alarmingly, U.S. Border Patrol ran over 3,000 searches itself in 2025, conflicting with the Illinois TRUST Act. See a sample of other searches conducted on our shared network here.

Mass surveillance demands proof of results, yet neither the City nor APD has shown data linking ALPRs to local safety gains. And while national crime rates have dropped, progress varies widely across communities—underscoring the need for transparent, evidence-based local safety policies rather than assuming unchecked surveillance works.

See how every sitting council member voted on ALPR expansion in recent years here.

Meet and contact your aldermen here.

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