Flock & ALPR Cameras in Melvindale, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 20 automated license plate readers in and around Melvindale — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 20 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Melvindale, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 11 of them sit inside Melvindale itself.
The rest sit in Allen Park (3), Dearborn (3), Detroit (2), Lincoln Park (1).
18 of them name an operator in the record: Melvindale Police Department (12), Dearborn Police Department (3), Meijer (2), Detroit Police Department (1). 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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- Sep 10 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Melvindale
The readers mapped around Melvindale break down as 18 Flock Safety, 2 Genetec. Named operators in the reports: Melvindale Police Department, Dearborn Police Department, Meijer, Detroit Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Oakwood Boulevard — 4 readers
- Fairlane Drive — 2 readers
- Greenfield Road — 2 readers
- Allen Road — 2 readers
- South Dearborn Street — 2 readers
- South Schaefer Highway — 2 readers
- West Outer Drive — 1 reader
- Dix Road — 1 reader
- Raupp Street — 1 reader
- Rotunda Drive — 1 reader
- Schaefer Highway South — 1 reader
- Detroit Industrial Expressway — 1 reader
Melvindale MI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Melvindale MI PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 32 other agencies.
Melvindale 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: Melvindale Police Department (12), Dearborn Police Department (3), Meijer (2).
Camera activity around Melvindale, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Melvindale. Latest change logged Sep 10, 2026.
What’s watching Melvindale
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 Melvindale — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Melvindale (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Melvindale
- Melvindale senior loses nearly $6,000 in bank impersonation scam
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Melvindale, MI
What you can do in Melvindale
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 Melvindale
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).