Flock & ALPR Cameras in Napoleon, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around Napoleon — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 8 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Napoleon, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 2 of them sit inside Napoleon itself.
The rest sit in Napoleon Township (6).
8 of them name an operator in the record: Napoleon Township Police Department (8). 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 Napoleon in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Napoleon
The readers mapped around Napoleon break down as 8 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Napoleon Township Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Jul 2023; the most recent in Nov 2025.
- Brooklyn Road — 3 readers
- Wolf Lake Road — 2 readers
- Austin Road — 2 readers
- Napoleon Road — 1 reader
Napoleon in the Jackson County picture
Jackson County has 60 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #806 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 160,187 residents and 1,500 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 15.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 8 traffic. Operators named on the record: Napoleon Township Police Department (8).
What’s watching Napoleon
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 Napoleon — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Napoleon (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Napoleon
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 Napoleon
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).