Flock & ALPR Cameras in Birmingham, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 14 automated license plate readers in and around Birmingham — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 14 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Birmingham, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 5 of them sit inside Birmingham itself.
The rest sit in Troy (4), Bloomfield Township (3), Royal Oak (2).
14 of them name an operator in the record: Birmingham Police Department (Michigan) (6), Bloomfield Township Police Department (3), Troy Police Department (Michigan) (3), Royal Oak Police Department (2). 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 Birmingham in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 13:27 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Birmingham
The readers mapped around Birmingham break down as 14 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Birmingham Police Department (Michigan), Bloomfield Township Police Department, Troy Police Department (Michigan), Royal Oak Police Department. Every report here dates to Apr 2025.
- Woodward Avenue — 4 readers
- East Maple Road — 2 readers
- Coolidge Highway — 2 readers
- West Big Beaver Road — 1 reader
- West Maple Road — 1 reader
- Bird Avenue — 1 reader
- North Adams Road — 1 reader
- Shepardbush Street — 1 reader
- Samoset Road — 1 reader
Birmingham MI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Birmingham MI PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 46 other agencies.
Birmingham in the Oakland County picture
Oakland County has 510 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #724 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,272,294 residents and 4,771 road miles. By road density that is 0.11 cameras per road mile, in the top 4.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 14 traffic. Operators named on the record: Birmingham Police Department (Michigan) (6), Bloomfield Township Police Department (3), Troy Police Department (Michigan) (3).
What’s watching Birmingham
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 Birmingham — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Birmingham (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Birmingham
- On the agenda: Birmingham September 14, 2026 Regular City Commission Meeting — Flock Camera (Sep 14)
What you can do in Birmingham
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 Birmingham
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).