Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lansing, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 22 automated license plate readers in and around Lansing — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 25 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Lansing
The readers mapped around Lansing break down as 21 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Lansing Police Department. The first camera here was reported in May 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- South Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard — 4 readers
- Oxford Road — 3 readers
- East Michigan Avenue — 2 readers
- South Larch Street — 2 readers
- West Holmes Road — 2 readers
- East Oakland Avenue — 2 readers
- West Saginaw Street — 2 readers
- South Pennsylvania Avenue — 1 reader
- South Cedar Street — 1 reader
- North Pennsylvania Avenue — 1 reader
- South Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard — 1 reader
Lansing MI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Lansing MI PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 74 other agencies.
Lansing in the Ingham County picture
Ingham County has 84 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,025 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 282,015 residents and 1,300 road miles. By road density that is 0.06 cameras per road mile, in the top 9.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 21 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lansing Police Department (17).
Camera activity around Lansing, last 30 days
6 newly reported, 4 removed in our hourly change log for Lansing. Latest change logged Aug 31, 2026.
What’s watching Lansing
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 Lansing — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Lansing (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Lansing
- In the minutes: Lansing Committee on Public Safety, License Plate Reader (Oct 1)
- On the agenda: Lansing Committee on Public Safety - — License Plate Reader (Sep 17)
- On the agenda: Lansing Downtown Lansing, Inc. Board Meeting — Flock Camera (Sep 17)
- 4 license plate readers reported removed near Lansing, MI
What you can do in Lansing
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 Lansing
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).