Flock & ALPR Cameras in Farmington Hills, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 11 automated license plate readers in and around Farmington Hills — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Farmington Hills in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 22:19 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Farmington Hills
The readers mapped around Farmington Hills break down as 12 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Farmington Hills Police Department, Oakland County Sheriff's Office. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Orchard Lake Road — 4 readers
- Walter P Reuther Freeway — 2 readers
- West 12 Mile Road — 2 readers
- West 13 Mile Road — 2 readers
- Farmington Road — 1 reader
- New Market Road — 1 reader
Farmington Hills MI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Farmington Hills MI PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 49 other agencies.
Farmington Hills in the Oakland County picture
Oakland County has 510 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #724 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,272,294 residents and 4,771 road miles. By road density that is 0.11 cameras per road mile, in the top 4.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 12 traffic. Operators named on the record: Farmington Hills Police Department (9), Oakland County Sheriff's Office (2).
Camera activity around Farmington Hills, last 30 days
1 newly reported, 2 removed in our hourly change log for Farmington Hills. Latest change logged Aug 31, 2026.
What’s watching Farmington Hills
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 Farmington Hills — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Farmington Hills (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Farmington Hills
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Farmington Hills, MI
- Farmington Hills to add License Plate Recognition system to reduce crime
- Farmington Hills man misidentified by facial recognition technology testifies at Congressional hearing
- Farmington Hills man sues Detroit police after being wrongly IDed by facial recognition technology
What you can do in Farmington Hills
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 Farmington Hills
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).