Flock & ALPR Cameras in Franklin, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 21 automated license plate readers in and around Franklin — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 21 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Franklin, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 3 of them sit inside Franklin itself.
The rest sit in Farmington Hills (5), Southfield (4), West Bloomfield Township (4), Bloomfield Township (3), Southfield Township (2).
19 of them name an operator in the record: Farmington Hills Police Department (7), Southfield Police Department (4), West Bloomfield Police Department (4), Bloomfield Township Police Department (2), Franklin-Bingham Farms 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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No new reports near Franklin in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 13:27 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Franklin
The readers mapped around Franklin break down as 21 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Farmington Hills Police Department, West Bloomfield Police Department, Southfield Police Department, Bloomfield Township Police Department, Franklin-Bingham Farms Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- West Maple Road — 3 readers
- Northwestern Highway — 3 readers
- Orchard Lake Road — 2 readers
- West 11 Mile Road — 2 readers
- Franklin Road — 2 readers
- West 12 Mile Road — 1 reader
- West 13 Mile Road — 1 reader
- West 14 Mile Road — 1 reader
- Middlebelt Road — 1 reader
- American Drive — 1 reader
- Walter P Reuther Freeway — 1 reader
- Beck Road — 1 reader
+ 2 more streets and roads mapped around Franklin — all on the live map above.
Franklin 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 21 traffic. Operators named on the record: Farmington Hills Police Department (7), West Bloomfield Police Department (4), Southfield Police Department (4).
Camera activity around Franklin, last 30 days
1 removed in our hourly change log for Franklin. Latest change logged Aug 15, 2026.
What’s watching Franklin
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 Franklin — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Franklin (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Franklin
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 Franklin
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).