Flock & ALPR Cameras in Ferrysburg, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Ferrysburg — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 5 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Ferrysburg, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Ferrysburg itself.
The rest sit in Norton Shores (4).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Ottawa County Sheriff's Office (1). 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 Ferrysburg in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:18 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Ferrysburg
The readers mapped around Ferrysburg break down as 4 Motorola Solutions, 1 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Ottawa County Sheriff's Office. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- East Pontaluna Road — 4 readers
- US 31 — 1 reader
Ferrysburg in the Ottawa County picture
Ottawa County has 67 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,288 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 298,614 residents and 1,380 road miles. By road density that is 0.05 cameras per road mile, in the top 12.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 5 traffic. Operators named on the record: Ottawa County Sheriff's Office (1).
What’s watching Ferrysburg
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 Ferrysburg — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Ferrysburg (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Ferrysburg
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 Ferrysburg
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).