Flock & ALPR Cameras in Burton, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 15 automated license plate readers in and around Burton — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 15 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Burton, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Burton itself.
The rest sit in Flint (7).
14 of them name an operator in the record: Burton Police Department (9), Davison Township Police Department (3), Flint Police Department (2). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
8 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Burton in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:27 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Burton
The readers mapped around Burton break down as 15 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Burton Police Department, Davison Township Police Department, Flint Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- South Center Road — 4 readers
- East Atherton Road — 3 readers
- East Court Street — 3 readers
- Daly Farms Drive — 1 reader
- Lippincott Boulevard — 1 reader
- Lapeer Road — 1 reader
- East Bristol Road — 1 reader
- Davison Road — 1 reader
Burton MI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Burton MI PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 45 other agencies.
Burton in the Genesee County picture
Genesee County has 223 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #441 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 20.6% nationally. That’s across 404,087 residents and 1,817 road miles. By road density that is 0.12 cameras per road mile, in the top 3.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 15 traffic. Operators named on the record: Burton Police Department (9), Davison Township Police Department (3), Flint Police Department (2).
What’s watching Burton
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 Burton — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Burton (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Burton
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 Burton
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).