Flock & ALPR Cameras in Grandville, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 17 automated license plate readers in and around Grandville — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 17 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Grandville, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 15 of them sit inside Grandville itself.
The rest sit in Wyoming (2).
11 of them name an operator in the record: Grandville Police Department (9), Lowe's (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 Grandville in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 00:34 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Grandville
The readers mapped around Grandville break down as 17 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Grandville Police Department, Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Apr 2026.
- Rivertown Parkway Southwest — 5 readers
- Canal Avenue Southwest — 4 readers
- Century Center Street Southwest — 4 readers
- 56th Street Southwest — 2 readers
- Wilson Avenue Southwest — 1 reader
- Ivanrest Avenue Southwest — 1 reader
Grandville PD MI and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Grandville PD MI appears in the sharing network with connections to 12 other agencies.
Grandville 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 15 traffic. Operators named on the record: Grandville Police Department (9), Lowe's (2).
What’s watching Grandville
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 Grandville — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Grandville (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Grandville
What you can do in Grandville
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 Grandville
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).