Flock & ALPR Cameras in Allen Park, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 18 automated license plate readers in and around Allen Park — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 18 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Allen Park, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 9 of them sit inside Allen Park itself.
The rest sit in Dearborn (4), Dearborn Heights (2), Taylor (2), Melvindale (1).
15 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (5), Dearborn Heights Police Department (3), Dearborn Police Department (3), Allen Park Police Department (1), Meijer (1), Melvindale Police Department (1), Taylor Police Department (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Allen Park in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:27 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Allen Park
The readers mapped around Allen Park break down as 16 Flock Safety, 1 Genetec, 1 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's, Dearborn Police Department, Dearborn Heights Police Department, Taylor Police Department, Meijer. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2022; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- West Outer Drive — 6 readers
- Southfield Service Drive — 3 readers
- Pelham Street — 2 readers
- Van Born Road — 1 reader
- Pelham Road — 1 reader
- Fairlane Drive — 1 reader
- Moore Road — 1 reader
- Annapolis Street — 1 reader
- Outer Drive West — 1 reader
- Wick Road — 1 reader
Allen Park MI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Allen Park MI PD has logged 49 plate-database searches. Its network connects to 56 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Allen Park in the Wayne County picture
Wayne County has 1,133 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #330 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 15.4% nationally. That’s across 1,773,767 residents and 4,007 road miles. By road density that is 0.28 cameras per road mile, in the top 0.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 18 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (5), Dearborn Police Department (3), Dearborn Heights Police Department (3).
Camera activity around Allen Park, last 30 days
1 newly reported, 3 removed in our hourly change log for Allen Park. Latest change logged Aug 30, 2026.
What’s watching Allen Park
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 Allen Park — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Allen Park (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Allen Park
- 3 license plate readers reported removed near Allen Park, MI
- 6 license plate readers reported removed near Allen Park, MI
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Allen Park, MI
- License plate reader helps Allen Park police recover stolen car ; driver escapes
What you can do in Allen Park
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 Allen Park
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).