Flock & ALPR Cameras in Mancelona, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around Mancelona — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 4 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Mancelona, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Mancelona itself.
The rest sit in Mancelona Township (2), Chestonia Township (1), Custer Township (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 21 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Mancelona
The readers mapped around Mancelona break down as 3 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in May 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Alba Highway — 1 reader
- South US 131 Highway — 1 reader
- South Williams Street — 1 reader
Mancelona in the Antrim County picture
Antrim County has 6 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,182 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 23,876 residents and 1,334 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 63.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 3 traffic.
What’s watching Mancelona
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 Mancelona — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Mancelona (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Mancelona
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 Mancelona
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).