Flock & ALPR Cameras in Inkster, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 38 automated license plate readers in and around Inkster — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 39 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Inkster, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 7 of them sit inside Inkster itself.
The rest sit in Dearborn (14), Dearborn Heights (11), Romulus (3), Taylor (2), Garden City (1), Westland (1).
36 of them name an operator in the record: Dearborn Police Department (14), Inkster Police Department (6), The Home Depot (6), Romulus Police Department (3), Dearborn Heights Police Department (2), Garden City Police Department (2), Taylor Police Department (2), Clean Express Auto Wash (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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- Oct 5, 2026 On the agenda: Inkster meeting — Flock camera (Oct 5)
- Aug 3, 2026 Inkster — meeting Aug 3, 2026
- Aug 3, 2026 City of Inkster Council Meeting
- Aug 3, 2026 On the agenda: Inkster meeting — flock camera (Aug 3)
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- Oct 4 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 28 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 28 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 14 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Inkster
The readers mapped around Inkster break down as 37 Flock Safety, 1 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Dearborn Police Department, The Home Depot, Inkster Police Department, Romulus Police Department, Garden City Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Michigan Avenue — 9 readers
- South Telegraph Road — 4 readers
- Inkster Road — 3 readers
- Middlebelt Road — 3 readers
- Cherry Hill Road — 2 readers
- Van Born Road — 2 readers
- Cherry Hill Street — 2 readers
- West Outer Drive — 2 readers
- South Beech Daly Road — 1 reader
- Oldham Street — 1 reader
- South Gulley Road — 1 reader
- Beverly Road — 1 reader
+ 7 more streets and roads mapped around Inkster — all on the live map above.
Inkster MI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Inkster MI PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 13 other agencies.
Inkster 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 38 traffic. Operators named on the record: Dearborn Police Department (14), The Home Depot (6), Inkster Police Department (6).
Camera activity around Inkster, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Inkster. Latest change logged Aug 21, 2026.
What’s watching Inkster
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 Inkster — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Inkster (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Inkster
- On the agenda: Inkster meeting — Flock camera (Oct 5)
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Inkster, MI
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Inkster, MI
- On the agenda: Inkster meeting — flock camera (Aug 3)
What you can do in Inkster
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 Inkster
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).