Flock & ALPR Cameras in Highland Park, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 127 automated license plate readers in and around Highland Park — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 126 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Highland Park, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 17 of them sit inside Highland Park itself.
The rest sit in Detroit (108), Hamtramck (1).
111 of them name an operator in the record: Detroit Police Department (94), Highland Park Police Department (16), Hamtramck 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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No new reports near Highland Park 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 Highland Park
The readers mapped around Highland Park break down as 83 Flock Safety, 43 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Detroit Police Department, Highland Park Police Department, Hamtramck Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- John C Lodge Expressway — 6 readers
- John C Lodge Freeway — 5 readers
- John C Lodge Service Drive — 5 readers
- Chrysler Drive — 5 readers
- Oakland Avenue — 4 readers
- Davison Freeway — 4 readers
- Keeler Street — 4 readers
- Schoolcraft Street — 4 readers
- Livernois Avenue — 4 readers
- I- 96 Service Drive — 4 readers
- Fenkell Street — 3 readers
- West Davison Avenue — 3 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Highland Park — all on the live map above.
Highland Park MI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Highland Park MI PD runs 18 cameras of its own, has logged 27 plate-database searches, has captured 257,577 vehicle records. Its network connects to 67 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Highland Park 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 126 traffic. Operators named on the record: Detroit Police Department (94), Highland Park Police Department (16), Hamtramck Police Department (1).
Camera activity around Highland Park, last 30 days
4 newly reported in our hourly change log for Highland Park. Latest change logged Aug 16, 2026.
What’s watching Highland Park
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 Highland Park — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Highland Park (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Highland Park
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Highland Park, MI
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Highland Park, MI
What you can do in Highland Park
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 Highland Park
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).