Flock & ALPR Cameras in Hamtramck, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 84 automated license plate readers in and around Hamtramck — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 87 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Hamtramck, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 15 of them sit inside Hamtramck itself.
The rest sit in Detroit (72).
78 of them name an operator in the record: Detroit Police Department (64), Hamtramck Police Department (14). 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 Hamtramck in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:13 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Hamtramck
The readers mapped around Hamtramck break down as 50 Flock Safety, 32 Motorola Solutions, 5 Genetec. Named operators in the reports: Detroit Police Department, Hamtramck Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Harper Avenue — 8 readers
- East 7 Mile Road — 4 readers
- Gratiot Avenue — 4 readers
- Pallister Street — 4 readers
- Holbrook Street — 3 readers
- Joseph Campau Street — 3 readers
- Conant Street — 3 readers
- John C Lodge Freeway — 3 readers
- Edsel Ford East — 3 readers
- East Grand Boulevard — 3 readers
- Chrysler Drive — 3 readers
- Van Dyke Street — 3 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Hamtramck — all on the live map above.
Hamtramck MI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Hamtramck MI PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 69 other agencies.
Hamtramck 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 86 traffic, 1 traffice. Operators named on the record: Detroit Police Department (64), Hamtramck Police Department (14).
What’s watching Hamtramck
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 Hamtramck — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Hamtramck (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Hamtramck
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 Hamtramck
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).