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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Benton Heights, Michigan

Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Benton Heights — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 4 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Benton Heights, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 2 of them sit inside Benton Heights itself.

The rest sit in Benton Charter Township (1), Benton Harbor (1).

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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Reported cameras nearby
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of 281 Michigan cities tracked
0.1%
of Michigan’s reported cameras
Live camera map 5 reported cameras around Benton Heights, Michigan
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Benton Heights

No new reports near Benton Heights in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 18:58 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Benton Heights

The readers mapped around Benton Heights break down as 4 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.

  • BL I-94 — 1 reader
  • East Main Street — 1 reader
  • Territorial Road — 1 reader
  • East Britain Avenue — 1 reader

Benton Heights in the Berrien County picture

Berrien County has 43 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,083 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 153,411 residents and 1,491 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 22.3% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 4 traffic.

Camera activity around Benton Heights, last 30 days

2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Benton Heights. Latest change logged Aug 15, 2026.

What’s watching Benton Heights

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 Benton Heights — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Benton Heights (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

The latest around Benton Heights

What you can do in Benton Heights

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.

Cameras near Benton Heights

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).