Flock & ALPR Cameras in Bay City, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Bay City — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Contract Rejected
Bay City is on the record here. The Bay City Commission voted against a contract with Flock Safety following community members expressing privacy concerns.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 2 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Bay City, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Bay City itself.
The rest sit in Monitor Township (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Bay City in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 19:48 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Bay City
The readers mapped around Bay City break down as 2 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2026; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- BS I 75;M 25 — 1 reader
- US 10 — 1 reader
Bay City in the Bay County picture
Bay County has 3 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #2,094 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 103,235 residents and 1,145 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 75.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic.
Camera activity around Bay City, last 30 days
5 newly reported, 7 removed in our hourly change log for Bay City. Latest change logged Sep 5, 2026.
What’s watching Bay 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 Bay City — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Bay City (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Bay City
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Bay City, MI
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Bay City, MI
- 3 license plate readers reported removed near Bay City, MI
- Bay City, MI: Contract Rejected
What you can do in Bay 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 Bay City
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).