Flock & ALPR Cameras in Livonia, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 17 automated license plate readers in and around Livonia — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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On the agenda: Livonia 2050th City Council Regular Meeting — Flock Camera (Oct 12)
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- Sep 18 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Livonia
The readers mapped around Livonia break down as 11 Flock Safety, 6 Genetec, 1 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Livonia Police Department, Meijer, Westland Police Department, UPS, Clean Express Auto Wash. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Middlebelt Road — 7 readers
- Schoolcraft Road — 3 readers
- Plymouth Road — 2 readers
- North Wayne Road — 1 reader
- North Merriman Road — 1 reader
- Camden Street — 1 reader
- Industrial Road — 1 reader
- Wayne Road — 1 reader
- Civic Center Drive — 1 reader
- Merriman Road — 1 reader
Livonia MI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Livonia MI PD has logged 367 plate-database searches. Its network connects to 64 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Livonia 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 19 traffic. Operators named on the record: Livonia Police Department (7), Meijer (6), Westland Police Department (3).
Camera activity around Livonia, last 30 days
2 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Livonia. Latest change logged Aug 30, 2026.
What’s watching Livonia
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 Livonia — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Livonia (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Livonia
- On the agenda: Livonia 2050th City Council Regular Meeting — Flock Camera (Oct 12)
- On the agenda: Livonia Public Safety, Health & Environment Committee Meeting — Flock Camera (Oct 1)
- 3 license plate readers reported removed near Livonia, MI
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Livonia, MI
What you can do in Livonia
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 Livonia
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).