Flock & ALPR Cameras in Grand Haven, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 12 automated license plate readers in and around Grand Haven — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 12 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Grand Haven, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 10 of them sit inside Grand Haven itself.
The rest sit in Grand Haven Charter Township (2).
4 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (2), Ottawa County Sheriffs Office (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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- Sep 26 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 26 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Grand Haven
The readers mapped around Grand Haven break down as 6 Flock Safety, 2 Motorola Solutions, 2 axon. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety, Ottawa County Sheriffs Office. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Sheldon Road — 4 readers
- South Beacon Boulevard — 2 readers
- North Beacon Boulevard — 2 readers
- US 31 — 1 reader
- Jackson Street — 1 reader
Grand Haven 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 6 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (2), Ottawa County Sheriffs Office (2).
What’s watching Grand Haven
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 Grand Haven — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Grand Haven (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Grand Haven
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Grand Haven, MI
- Sheriff's Office investigating vandalism to multiple ALPR cameras
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Grand Haven, MI
What you can do in Grand Haven
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 Grand Haven
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).