Flock & ALPR Cameras in Coldwater, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 7 automated license plate readers in and around Coldwater — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 7 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Coldwater, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 5 of them sit inside Coldwater itself.
The rest sit in Coldwater Township (2).
3 of them name an operator in the record: Coldwater Police Department (3). 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 Coldwater in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:11 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Coldwater
The readers mapped around Coldwater break down as 7 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Coldwater Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Mar 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- East Chicago Street — 3 readers
- East State Street — 2 readers
- Chicago Road — 1 reader
- Marshall Road — 1 reader
Coldwater MI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Coldwater MI PD runs 5 cameras of its own, has logged 14 plate-database searches, has captured 120,402 vehicle records. Its network connects to 1,780 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Abbotsford WI PD, Acworth GA PD, Ada County ID SO, Adairville KY PD, Adams County IL SO, Adams County IN SO, Adams County WI SO, Adams WI PD.
Coldwater in the Branch County picture
Branch County has 5 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,712 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 44,914 residents and 884 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 57.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 6 traffic. Operators named on the record: Coldwater Police Department (3).
What’s watching Coldwater
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 Coldwater — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Coldwater (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Coldwater
What you can do in Coldwater
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 Coldwater
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).