Flock & ALPR Cameras in Michigan City, Indiana
Volunteers have reported 62 automated license plate readers in and around Michigan City — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 61 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Michigan City, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 60 of them sit inside Michigan City itself.
The rest sit in Town of Pines (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 9 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 9 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Michigan City
The readers mapped around Michigan City break down as 60 Flock Safety, 1 Genetec. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Franklin Street — 11 readers
- Ohio Street — 6 readers
- Larkspur Lane — 3 readers
- Southwind Drive — 3 readers
- 2nd Street — 2 readers
- Singing Sands Trail — 2 readers
- Meijer Drive — 2 readers
- Pinetree Court — 2 readers
- Village Road — 2 readers
- East 8th Street — 1 reader
- East Michigan Boulevard — 1 reader
- Fir Street — 1 reader
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Michigan City — all on the live map above.
Michigan City IN PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Michigan City IN PD has captured 269,236 vehicle records. Its network connects to 2,154 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Abbotsford WI PD, Acworth GA PD, Ada County ID SO, Adairville KY PD, Adams County IL SO, Adams County IN SO, Adams County WA SO, Adams County WI SO.
Michigan City in the LaPorte County picture
LaPorte County has 75 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #288 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 13.4% nationally. That’s across 112,141 residents and 1,364 road miles. By road density that is 0.06 cameras per road mile, in the top 11.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 42 traffic.
Camera activity around Michigan City, last 30 days
4 newly reported in our hourly change log for Michigan City. Latest change logged Sep 9, 2026.
What’s watching Michigan City
These aren’t red-light cameras. Automated license plate readers like Flock Safety’s photograph every plate that passes, log the time and place, and store it in a searchable database that’s often shared far beyond Michigan City — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Michigan City (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Michigan City
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Michigan City, IN
- 9 new license plate readers reported around Michigan City, IN
What you can do in Michigan City
Ask who approved these cameras, how long plate data is kept, and who it’s shared with. File a public records request, raise it at a council meeting, and see the full playbook on Take Action. Fighting this locally? Join or start a chapter and we’ll amplify you.
Not sure what one looks like? See photographs of installed cameras before you go looking.
Cameras near Michigan City
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).