Flock & ALPR Cameras in Milan, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Milan — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 5 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Milan, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 3 of them sit inside Milan itself.
The rest sit in Macon Township (1), York Charter Township (1).
4 of them name an operator in the record: Milan Police Department (3), Lenawee County Sheriff's Office (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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No new reports near Milan in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 18:57 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Milan
The readers mapped around Milan break down as 5 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Milan Police Department, Lenawee County Sheriff's Office. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2025; the most recent in Feb 2026.
- Plank Road — 2 readers
- Carpenter Road — 1 reader
- Ridge Highway — 1 reader
- Platt Road — 1 reader
Milan MI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Milan MI PD runs 6 cameras of its own, has logged 43 plate-database searches, has captured 71,415 vehicle records. Its network connects to 1,970 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Abbotsford WI PD, Abington Township PA PD, Acworth GA PD, Ada County ID SO, Adairville KY PD, Adams County IL SO, Adams County IN SO, Adams County WI SO.
Milan in the Washtenaw County picture
Washtenaw County has 46 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,643 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 368,394 residents and 1,863 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 25% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 4 traffic. Operators named on the record: Milan Police Department (3), Lenawee County Sheriff's Office (1).
What’s watching Milan
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 Milan — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Milan (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Milan
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 Milan
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).