Flock & ALPR Cameras in Muskegon, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 16 automated license plate readers in and around Muskegon — 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 Muskegon, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 12 of them sit inside Muskegon itself.
The rest sit in Muskegon Charter Township (4).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Traffic (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 Muskegon in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 9, 03:14 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Muskegon
The readers mapped around Muskegon break down as 15 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Traffic. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- West Laketon Avenue — 4 readers
- East Apple Avenue — 4 readers
- West Western Avenue — 2 readers
- Marquette Avenue — 1 reader
- West Southern Avenue — 1 reader
- Moses J Jones Parkway — 1 reader
- Wood Street — 1 reader
- Lakeshore Trail — 1 reader
- West Muskegon Avenue — 1 reader
Muskegon MI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Muskegon MI PD runs 13 cameras of its own, has logged 201 plate-database searches, has captured 175,685 vehicle records. Its network connects to 65 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Muskegon in the Muskegon County picture
Muskegon County has 74 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #673 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 175,378 residents and 1,500 road miles. By road density that is 0.05 cameras per road mile, in the top 12.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 15 traffic, 1 street;traffic. Operators named on the record: Traffic (1).
Camera activity around Muskegon, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Muskegon. Latest change logged Aug 17, 2026.
What’s watching Muskegon
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 Muskegon — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Muskegon (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Muskegon
- On the agenda: Muskegon Legislative Policy Committee — Flock camera (Sep 23)
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Muskegon, MI
- 10 more surveillance cameras to be placed at Muskegon area intersections
- Muskegon approves purchase of license plate readers for police department
What you can do in Muskegon
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 Muskegon
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).