Flock & ALPR Cameras in Eastpointe, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 34 automated license plate readers in and around Eastpointe — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Contract Canceled
Eastpointe is on the record here. Eastpointe voted to cancel its Flock contract for license plate reader cameras.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 34 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Eastpointe, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 16 of them sit inside Eastpointe itself.
The rest sit in Detroit (10), Warren (8).
29 of them name an operator in the record: Eastpointe Police Department (16), Detroit Police Department (10), Warren 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 Eastpointe in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Eastpointe
The readers mapped around Eastpointe break down as 27 Flock Safety, 7 Genetec. Named operators in the reports: Eastpointe Police Department, Detroit Police Department, Warren Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Jul 2023; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- East 7 Mile Road — 5 readers
- Gratiot Avenue — 4 readers
- Hoover Street — 4 readers
- Regency Club Drive — 4 readers
- Kelly Road — 3 readers
- East 9 Mile Road — 3 readers
- Schoenherr Road — 2 readers
- Toepfer Drive — 2 readers
- Shakespeare Avenue — 1 reader
- Cushing Avenue — 1 reader
- Hayes Avenue — 1 reader
- Stephens Road — 1 reader
+ 3 more streets and roads mapped around Eastpointe — all on the live map above.
Eastpointe MI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Eastpointe MI PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 101 other agencies.
Eastpointe in the Macomb County picture
Macomb County has 230 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,137 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 877,624 residents and 2,619 road miles. By road density that is 0.09 cameras per road mile, in the top 5.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 34 traffic. Operators named on the record: Eastpointe Police Department (16), Detroit Police Department (10), Warren Police Department (3).
What’s watching Eastpointe
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 Eastpointe — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Eastpointe (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Eastpointe
- Eastpointe ends Flock Safety contract after employees misused license plate reader system
- Eastpointe Police cancels Flock camera contract
- Eastpointe ends Flock camera contract amid misuse allegations against police staff
- 2 Eastpointe cops misused Flock license plate readers, chief says
What you can do in Eastpointe
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 Eastpointe
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).