Flock & ALPR Cameras in Detroit, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 113 automated license plate readers in and around Detroit — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Oct 1 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 10 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 10 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Detroit
The readers mapped around Detroit break down as 62 Flock Safety, 28 Motorola Solutions, 12 Genetec. Named operators in the reports: Detroit Police Department, Rock Security, General Motors. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Chrysler Drive — 8 readers
- West Fisher Freeway — 7 readers
- East Jefferson Avenue — 6 readers
- West Grand Boulevard — 6 readers
- John C Lodge Drive — 5 readers
- Monroe Street — 4 readers
- Fisher Drive West — 4 readers
- Grand River Avenue — 3 readers
- 3rd Avenue — 3 readers
- Maybury Grand Street — 3 readers
- Edsel Ford Freeway Service Drive — 3 readers
- Saint Antoine Street — 3 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Detroit — all on the live map above.
Detroit MI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Detroit MI PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 12 other agencies.
Detroit 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 106 traffic, 1 trafficmanufacturer:wikidata=Q30267239. Operators named on the record: Detroit Police Department (83), Rock Security (10), General Motors (4).
Camera activity around Detroit, last 30 days
8 newly reported in our hourly change log for Detroit. Latest change logged Sep 10, 2026.
What’s watching Detroit
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 Detroit — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Detroit (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Detroit
- Metro Detroit police accused of using Flock cameras to help ICE make arrests
- Community Near Detroit Rejects Use of Flock Safety Cameras
- Another Metro Detroit community says no to Flock cameras
- Flock cameras proliferated across Michigan and the nation before privacy concerns fueled a backlash. See link below ⬇️ 📸 Eric Seals, Detroit Free Press
What you can do in Detroit
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 Detroit
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).