Flock & ALPR Cameras in Kalamazoo, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 34 automated license plate readers in and around Kalamazoo — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 34 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Kalamazoo, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 32 of them sit inside Kalamazoo itself.
The rest sit in Kalamazoo Charter Township (1), Portage (1).
14 of them name an operator in the record: Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety (12), Portage Department of Public Safety Police Division (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 Kalamazoo in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:27 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Kalamazoo
The readers mapped around Kalamazoo break down as 27 Flock Safety, 6 of unrecorded make, 1 Linovision. Named operators in the reports: Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety, Portage Department of Public Safety Police Division. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Lake Street — 3 readers
- South Burdick Street — 3 readers
- Fulford Street — 2 readers
- East Stockbridge Avenue — 2 readers
- West North Street — 2 readers
- East Cork Street — 2 readers
- Douglas Avenue — 1 reader
- Oakland Drive — 1 reader
- West Kilgore Road — 1 reader
- Denway Drive — 1 reader
- South Westnedge Avenue — 1 reader
- Whites Road — 1 reader
+ 14 more streets and roads mapped around Kalamazoo — all on the live map above.
Kalamazoo MI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Kalamazoo MI PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 50 other agencies.
Kalamazoo in the Kalamazoo County picture
Kalamazoo County has 123 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #587 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 261,437 residents and 1,510 road miles. By road density that is 0.08 cameras per road mile, in the top 6.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 25 traffic. Operators named on the record: Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety (12), Portage Department of Public Safety Police Division (2).
What’s watching Kalamazoo
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 Kalamazoo — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Kalamazoo (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Kalamazoo
- Pause to Flock camera contract weighed by Kalamazoo County sheriff during Oshtemo meeting
- City of Kalamazoo tightens oversight of Flock camera and surveillance purchases
- Next Flock contract renewal to be up to Kalamazoo city commission vote
- Kalamazoo Flock cameras face new approval process — but not until next year’s contract
What you can do in Kalamazoo
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 Kalamazoo
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).