Flock & ALPR Cameras in Jackson, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 44 automated license plate readers in and around Jackson — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 44 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Jackson, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 26 of them sit inside Jackson itself.
The rest sit in Blackman Charter Township (17), Summit Township (1).
28 of them name an operator in the record: Jackson Police Department (12), Blackman-Leoni Township Department of Public Safety (9), Jackson Housing Commission (5), Lowe's (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 Jackson in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:59 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Jackson
The readers mapped around Jackson break down as 43 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Jackson Police Department, Blackman-Leoni Township Department of Public Safety, Jackson Housing Commission, Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- West Michigan Avenue — 3 readers
- Andrew Avenue — 2 readers
- Cooper Street — 2 readers
- Seymour Road — 2 readers
- East Michigan Avenue — 2 readers
- Springport Road — 2 readers
- Boardman Road — 2 readers
- Elmdale Drive — 2 readers
- West Prospect Street — 2 readers
- South Jackson Street — 2 readers
- North Elm Avenue — 2 readers
- Airport Road — 1 reader
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Jackson — all on the live map above.
Jackson MI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Jackson MI PD runs 10 cameras of its own. Its network connects to 52 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Jackson in the Jackson County picture
Jackson County has 60 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #806 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 160,187 residents and 1,500 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 15.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 43 traffic, 1 parking. Operators named on the record: Jackson Police Department (12), Blackman-Leoni Township Department of Public Safety (9), Jackson Housing Commission (5).
Camera activity around Jackson, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Jackson. Latest change logged Aug 27, 2026.
What’s watching Jackson
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 Jackson — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Jackson (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Jackson
What you can do in Jackson
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 Jackson
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).