Flock & ALPR Cameras in Monroe, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 23 automated license plate readers in and around Monroe — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 23 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Monroe, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 11 of them sit inside Monroe itself.
The rest sit in Frenchtown Charter Township (12).
10 of them name an operator in the record: Monroe Police Department (7), Lowe's (3). 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 Monroe in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:26 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Monroe
The readers mapped around Monroe break down as 23 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Monroe Police Department, Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Mall Road — 5 readers
- North Telegraph Road — 3 readers
- North Monroe Street — 2 readers
- Stewart Road — 2 readers
- East 3rd Street — 2 readers
- South Monroe Street — 1 reader
- East Front Street — 1 reader
- River Raisin Heritage Trail — 1 reader
- North Dixie Highway — 1 reader
- Arbor Creek Drive — 1 reader
- Conant Street — 1 reader
- Reisig Street — 1 reader
+ 2 more streets and roads mapped around Monroe — all on the live map above.
Monroe MI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Monroe MI PD runs 15 cameras of its own, has logged 163 plate-database searches, has captured 157,896 vehicle records. Its network connects to 105 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Monroe in the Monroe County picture
Monroe County has 50 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #959 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 155,001 residents and 1,043 road miles. By road density that is 0.05 cameras per road mile, in the top 12.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 23 traffic. Operators named on the record: Monroe Police Department (7), Lowe's (3).
Camera activity around Monroe, last 30 days
2 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Monroe. Latest change logged Sep 3, 2026.
What’s watching Monroe
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 Monroe — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Monroe (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Monroe
- Flock Safety data retention changes spark debate among law enforcement, community advocates in NW Ohio, SE Michigan
- Monroe County Sheriff's Office adds license plate reader cameras
- In the minutes: Monroe County Board of Commissioners Meeting, flock camera (Oct 6)
What you can do in Monroe
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 Monroe
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).