Flock & ALPR Cameras in Clawson, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 33 automated license plate readers in and around Clawson — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 33 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Clawson, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Clawson itself.
The rest sit in Troy (22), Madison Heights (10), Royal Oak (1).
27 of them name an operator in the record: Troy Police Department (Michigan) (15), Dick's Sporting Goods (5), Clean Express Auto Wash (1), Madison Heights Police Department (1), Red Roof Inn Detroit - Royal Oak/Madison Heights (1), Rodeway Inn Madison Heights - Detroit (1), Royal Oak Police Department (1), Sterling Heights Police Department (1). 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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- Sep 30 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Clawson
The readers mapped around Clawson break down as 31 Flock Safety, 1 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Troy Police Department (Michigan), Sterling Heights Police Department, Madison Heights Police Department, Red Roof Inn Detroit - Royal Oak/Madison Heights, Travelodge Madison Heights. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Elliott Avenue — 5 readers
- John R Road — 4 readers
- West Big Beaver Road — 4 readers
- Townley Street — 3 readers
- West 14 Mile Road — 3 readers
- Stephenson Highway — 3 readers
- Rochester Road — 2 readers
- East Maple Road — 1 reader
- Dequindre Road — 1 reader
- Owendale Drive — 1 reader
- East Big Beaver Road — 1 reader
- Concord Drive — 1 reader
+ 3 more streets and roads mapped around Clawson — all on the live map above.
Clawson MI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Clawson MI PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 10 other agencies.
Clawson 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 32 traffic. Operators named on the record: Troy Police Department (Michigan) (15), Sterling Heights Police Department (1), Madison Heights Police Department (1).
What’s watching Clawson
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 Clawson — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Clawson (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Clawson
- 4 license plate readers reported removed near Clawson, MI
- License Plate Reader Vote Angers Clawson, Mich., Police
- 2 Clawson cops threaten to quit over vote to stop using license plate readers
- Four Flock cameras approved by Clawson City Council
What you can do in Clawson
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 Clawson
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).