Flock & ALPR Cameras in Madison Heights, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 16 automated license plate readers in and around Madison Heights — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 16 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Madison Heights, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 11 of them sit inside Madison Heights itself.
The rest sit in Hazel Park (2), Royal Oak (2), Warren (1).
15 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (4), Oakland County Sheriff's Office (4), Hazel Park Police Department (3), Madison Heights Police Department (2), Royal Oak Police Department (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 Madison Heights in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 16:22 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Madison Heights
The readers mapped around Madison Heights break down as 16 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Oakland County Sheriff's Office, Lowe's, Hazel Park Police Department, Royal Oak Police Department, Madison Heights Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Feb 2026.
- West 12 Mile Road — 3 readers
- Dequindre Road — 3 readers
- Dartmouth Street — 3 readers
- John R Road — 2 readers
- East 10 Mile Road — 2 readers
- East 11 Mile Road — 1 reader
- Red Oaks Trail — 1 reader
- Hales Street — 1 reader
Madison Heights MI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Madison Heights MI PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 46 other agencies.
Madison Heights in the Oakland County picture
Oakland County has 510 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #724 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,272,294 residents and 4,771 road miles. By road density that is 0.11 cameras per road mile, in the top 4.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 16 traffic. Operators named on the record: Oakland County Sheriff's Office (4), Lowe's (4), Hazel Park Police Department (3).
Camera activity around Madison Heights, last 30 days
1 removed in our hourly change log for Madison Heights. Latest change logged Aug 30, 2026.
What’s watching Madison Heights
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 Madison Heights — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Madison Heights (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Madison Heights
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 Madison Heights
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).