Flock & ALPR Cameras in Grand Rapids, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 22 automated license plate readers in and around Grand Rapids — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 21 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 Rapids
The readers mapped around Grand Rapids break down as 25 Flock Safety, 1 Genetec. Named operators in the reports: Grand Rapids Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Market Avenue Southwest — 2 readers
- Fulton Street East — 2 readers
- Fuller Avenue Northeast — 2 readers
- Leonard Street Northeast — 2 readers
- Hall Street Southwest — 2 readers
- Leonard Street Northwest — 2 readers
- Alpine Avenue Northwest — 2 readers
- Martin Luther King Jr. Street Southeast — 2 readers
- Martin Luther King Jr. Street Southwest — 2 readers
- Lake Michigan Drive Northwest — 1 reader
- College Avenue Southeast — 1 reader
- Division Avenue South — 1 reader
+ 5 more streets and roads mapped around Grand Rapids — all on the live map above.
Grand Rapids MI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Grand Rapids MI PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 89 other agencies.
Grand Rapids 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 24 traffic. Operators named on the record: Grand Rapids Police Department (15).
What’s watching Grand Rapids
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 Rapids — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Grand Rapids (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Grand Rapids
- 4 license plate readers reported removed near Grand Rapids, MI
- Grand Rapids announces new rules for police license plate reader cameras
- Grand Rapids announces new oversight rules for police license plate reader cameras
- Grand Rapids to put Flock & other license plate reader usage under annual review
What you can do in Grand Rapids
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 Rapids
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).