Flock & ALPR Cameras in Comstock Northwest, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 13 automated license plate readers in and around Comstock Northwest — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 13 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Comstock Northwest, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Comstock Northwest itself.
The rest sit in Comstock Charter Township (8), Cooper Charter Township (3), Kalamazoo Charter Township (1), Richland Township (1).
5 of them name an operator in the record: Meijer (5). 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 Comstock Northwest in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:27 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Comstock Northwest
The readers mapped around Comstock Northwest break down as 8 Flock Safety, 5 Genetec. Named operators in the reports: Meijer. The first camera here was reported in Jul 2025; the most recent in May 2026.
- Gull Road — 5 readers
- Sprinkle Road — 3 readers
- North 26th Street — 2 readers
- Landing Lane — 1 reader
- Coopers Landing Drive — 1 reader
- Forth Landing Drive — 1 reader
Comstock Northwest in the Kalamazoo County picture
Kalamazoo County has 123 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #587 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 261,437 residents and 1,510 road miles. By road density that is 0.08 cameras per road mile, in the top 6.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 13 traffic. Operators named on the record: Meijer (5).
What’s watching Comstock Northwest
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 Comstock Northwest — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Comstock Northwest (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Comstock Northwest
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 Comstock Northwest
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).