Flock & ALPR Cameras in Forest Hills, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 6 automated license plate readers in and around Forest Hills — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 19 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Forest Hills
The readers mapped around Forest Hills break down as 5 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Nov 2025.
- 28th Street Southeast — 4 readers
- Fulton Street East — 1 reader
Forest Hills 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 5 traffic.
What’s watching Forest 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 Forest Hills — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Forest Hills (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Forest Hills
What you can do in Forest 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 Forest Hills
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).