Flock & ALPR Cameras in Buchanan, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Buchanan — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 1 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Buchanan, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Buchanan itself.
The rest sit in Niles Charter Township (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Jul 13, 2026 On the agenda: Buchanan packet — ALPR (Jul 13)
Every record for this area on the Docket → · nothing is ever deleted.
No new reports near Buchanan in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 16:20 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Buchanan
The readers mapped around Buchanan break down as 1 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Jul 2026.
- Longmeadow Lane — 1 reader
Buchanan 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 1 traffic.
What’s watching Buchanan
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 Buchanan — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Buchanan (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Buchanan
What you can do in Buchanan
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.
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Cameras near Buchanan
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).