Flock & ALPR Cameras in Garden City, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 25 automated license plate readers in and around Garden City — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 25 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Garden City, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 20 of them sit inside Garden City itself.
The rest sit in Westland (3), Dearborn Heights (2).
24 of them name an operator in the record: Garden City Police Department (22), Dearborn Heights 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 Garden City in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Garden City
The readers mapped around Garden City break down as 25 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Garden City Police Department, Dearborn Heights Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Ford Road — 7 readers
- Middlebelt Road — 6 readers
- Henry Ruff Road — 2 readers
- Warren Road — 2 readers
- North Merriman Road — 2 readers
- Merriman Road — 1 reader
- Leona Street — 1 reader
- Cherry Hill Road — 1 reader
- South Venoy Circle — 1 reader
- North Venoy Road — 1 reader
- Cardwell Street — 1 reader
Garden City MI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Garden City MI PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 101 other agencies.
Garden City in the Wayne County picture
Wayne County has 1,133 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #330 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 15.4% nationally. That’s across 1,773,767 residents and 4,007 road miles. By road density that is 0.28 cameras per road mile, in the top 0.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 25 traffic. Operators named on the record: Garden City Police Department (22), Dearborn Heights Police Department (2).
What’s watching Garden City
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 Garden City — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Garden City (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Garden City
- In the minutes: Garden City meeting, Flock camera (Sep 28)
- In the minutes: Garden City meeting, flock camera (Sep 14)
What you can do in Garden City
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 Garden City
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).