Flock & ALPR Cameras in East Grand Rapids, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 24 automated license plate readers in and around East Grand Rapids — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 24 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of East Grand Rapids, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside East Grand Rapids itself.
The rest sit in Kentwood (14), Grand Rapids (7), Grand Rapids Charter Township (1).
15 of them name an operator in the record: Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust (5), Grand Rapids Police Department (4), Kentwood Police Department (3), Lowe's (3). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
2 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near East Grand Rapids in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 22:21 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in East Grand Rapids
The readers mapped around East Grand Rapids break down as 16 Flock Safety, 5 Motorola Solutions, 3 Genetec. Named operators in the reports: Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust, Grand Rapids Police Department, Kentwood Police Department, Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- 28th Street Southeast — 5 readers
- Burton Street Southeast — 4 readers
- Broadmoor Avenue Southeast — 2 readers
- Woodland Drive Southeast — 2 readers
- Mall Drive Southeast — 2 readers
- Kalamazoo Avenue Southeast — 2 readers
- East Beltline Avenue Southeast — 1 reader
- Shaffer Avenue Southeast — 1 reader
- Plaza Drive Southeast — 1 reader
- East Paris Avenue Southeast — 1 reader
- Breton Avenue Southeast — 1 reader
- 32nd Street Southeast — 1 reader
+ 2 more streets and roads mapped around East Grand Rapids — all on the live map above.
East Grand Rapids MI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, East Grand Rapids MI PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 2 other agencies.
East Grand Rapids in the Kent County picture
Kent County has 219 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #929 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 658,844 residents and 2,972 road miles. By road density that is 0.07 cameras per road mile, in the top 7.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 24 traffic. Operators named on the record: Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust (5), Grand Rapids Police Department (4), Kentwood Police Department (3).
Camera activity around East Grand Rapids, last 30 days
1 newly reported, 4 removed in our hourly change log for East Grand Rapids. Latest change logged Aug 28, 2026.
What’s watching East Grand Rapids
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 East Grand Rapids — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to East Grand Rapids (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around East Grand Rapids
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near East Grand Rapids, MI
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near East Grand Rapids, MI
- 2 new license plate readers reported around East Grand Rapids, MI
What you can do in East Grand Rapids
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 East Grand Rapids
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).