Flock & ALPR Cameras in Howell, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 14 automated license plate readers in and around Howell — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 14 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Howell, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Howell itself.
The rest sit in Genoa Charter Township (5), Oceola Township (4).
10 of them name an operator in the record: Livingston County Sheriff's Office (8), Lowe's (2). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
5 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Howell in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 16:20 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Howell
The readers mapped around Howell break down as 8 Flock Safety, 5 Insight, 1 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Livingston County Sheriff's Office, Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- South Latson Road — 4 readers
- Highland Road — 3 readers
- Golf Club Road — 1 reader
- East Grand River Avenue — 1 reader
- Pinckney Road — 1 reader
- Wright Road — 1 reader
- Clyde Road — 1 reader
- Market Place — 1 reader
- West Grand River Avenue — 1 reader
Howell in the Livingston County picture
Livingston County has 38 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,398 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 195,143 residents and 1,688 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 26.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 14 traffic. Operators named on the record: Livingston County Sheriff's Office (8), Lowe's (2).
What’s watching Howell
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 Howell — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Howell (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Howell
What you can do in Howell
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 Howell
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).