Flock & ALPR Cameras in Ferndale, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Ferndale — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Contract Canceled
Ferndale is on the record here. Ferndale ended its contract with Flock Safety after hearing community concerns and is seeking a new license plate reader vendor.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 2 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Ferndale, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Ferndale itself.
The rest sit in Detroit (2).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Detroit Police Department (2). 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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Every record for this area on the Docket → · nothing is ever deleted.
No new reports near Ferndale in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:15 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Ferndale
The readers mapped around Ferndale break down as 2 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Detroit Police Department. Every report here dates to May 2025.
- Livernois Avenue — 2 readers
Ferndale MI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Ferndale MI PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 46 other agencies.
Ferndale 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 2 traffic. Operators named on the record: Detroit Police Department (2).
What’s watching Ferndale
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 Ferndale — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Ferndale (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Ferndale
- On the agenda: Ferndale City Council - Dec 15, 2025 — Automated License Plate (Jan 5)
- On the agenda: Ferndale City Council - Nov 24, 2025 — Automated License Plate (Nov 24)
- Ferndale ends contract with Flock Safety after hearing concerns, seeks new license plate reader vendor
- Ferndale, MI: Contract Canceled
What you can do in Ferndale
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 Ferndale
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).