Flock & ALPR Cameras in Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around Grosse Pointe Woods — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 8 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Grosse Pointe Woods, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 3 of them sit inside Grosse Pointe Woods itself.
The rest sit in Saint Clair Shores (4), Harper Woods (1).
8 of them name an operator in the record: Saint Clair Shores Police Department (4), Grosse Pointe Woods Department of Public Safety (3), Harper Woods Police Department (1). 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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- Aug 25, 2026 In the minutes: Grosse Pointe Woods packet, surveillance camera (Aug 25)
- Aug 17, 2026 On the agenda: Grosse Pointe Woods packet — Surveillance Camera (Aug 17)
- Aug 10, 2026 On the agenda: Grosse Pointe Woods packet — Surveillance Camera (Aug 10)
- Jul 28, 2026 In the minutes: Grosse Pointe Woods minutes, surveillance camera (Jul 28)
Every record for this area on the Docket → · nothing is ever deleted.
No new reports near Grosse Pointe Woods in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 19:24 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Grosse Pointe Woods
The readers mapped around Grosse Pointe Woods break down as 4 Flock Safety, 4 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Saint Clair Shores Police Department, Grosse Pointe Woods Department of Public Safety, Harper Woods Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Jul 2025; the most recent in Nov 2025.
- Marter Road — 2 readers
- Vernier Road — 2 readers
- East 9 Mile Road — 1 reader
- Edmunton Street — 1 reader
- Mack Avenue — 1 reader
- Harper Avenue — 1 reader
Grosse Pointe Woods 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 8 traffic. Operators named on the record: Saint Clair Shores Police Department (4), Grosse Pointe Woods Department of Public Safety (3), Harper Woods Police Department (1).
What’s watching Grosse Pointe Woods
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 Grosse Pointe Woods — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Grosse Pointe Woods (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
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What you can do in Grosse Pointe Woods
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.
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Cameras near Grosse Pointe Woods
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).