Flock & ALPR Cameras in Dearborn, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 101 automated license plate readers in and around Dearborn — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 99 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Dearborn, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 52 of them sit inside Dearborn itself.
The rest sit in Detroit (47).
92 of them name an operator in the record: Detroit Police Department (41), Dearborn Police Department (40), The Home Depot (4), University of Michigan-Dearborn Department of Public Safety (4), Michigan State Police (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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- Sep 14 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 14 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 13 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Dearborn
The readers mapped around Dearborn break down as 78 Flock Safety, 10 Motorola Solutions, 4 Genetec. Named operators in the reports: Detroit Police Department, Dearborn Police Department, The Home Depot, University of Michigan-Dearborn Department of Public Safety, Michigan State Police. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2023; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Southfield Road — 9 readers
- Ford Road — 8 readers
- West Warren Avenue — 6 readers
- Michigan Avenue — 5 readers
- Greenfield Road — 5 readers
- Joy Road — 4 readers
- Schaefer Road — 4 readers
- Schoolcraft Street — 4 readers
- South M 39 Service Drive — 3 readers
- Tireman Avenue — 3 readers
- North M 39 Service Drive — 3 readers
- Livernois Avenue — 3 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Dearborn — all on the live map above.
Dearborn MI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Dearborn MI PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 135 other agencies.
Dearborn in the Wayne County picture
Wayne County has 1,133 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #330 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 15.4% nationally. That’s across 1,773,767 residents and 4,007 road miles. By road density that is 0.28 cameras per road mile, in the top 0.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 96 traffic. Operators named on the record: Detroit Police Department (41), Dearborn Police Department (40), The Home Depot (4).
What’s watching Dearborn
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 Dearborn — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Dearborn (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Dearborn
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What you can do in Dearborn
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 Dearborn
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).