Flock & ALPR Cameras in Harper Woods, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 45 automated license plate readers in and around Harper Woods — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 45 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Harper Woods, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 10 of them sit inside Harper Woods itself.
The rest sit in Detroit (33), Grosse Pointe Woods (2).
40 of them name an operator in the record: Detroit Police Department (27), Harper Woods Police Department (4), The Home Depot (4), Lowe's (3), Grosse Pointe Woods Department of Public Safety (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 Harper Woods in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 16:22 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Harper Woods
The readers mapped around Harper Woods break down as 24 Flock Safety, 13 Motorola Solutions, 8 Genetec. Named operators in the reports: Detroit Police Department, The Home Depot, Harper Woods Police Department, Lowe's, Grosse Pointe Woods Department of Public Safety. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Nov 2025.
- Kelly Road — 11 readers
- Edsel Ford East Service Drive — 5 readers
- East 7 Mile Road — 3 readers
- Edsel Ford Service Drive — 3 readers
- Moross Road — 3 readers
- Vernier Road — 2 readers
- Eastland Drive — 2 readers
- Harper Avenue — 2 readers
- Morang Drive — 2 readers
- Whittier Street — 1 reader
- Harvard Road — 1 reader
- Cadieux Road — 1 reader
+ 9 more streets and roads mapped around Harper Woods — all on the live map above.
Harper 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 45 traffic. Operators named on the record: Detroit Police Department (27), The Home Depot (4), Harper Woods Police Department (4).
What’s watching Harper 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 Harper Woods — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Harper Woods (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Harper Woods
- Grosse Pointes, Harper Woods adding license plate readers in coming weeks
- Foundation hopes to bring license plate readers to Pointes and Harper Woods
What you can do in Harper 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.
Not sure what one looks like? See photographs of installed cameras before you go looking.
Cameras near Harper Woods
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).