Flock & ALPR Cameras in Northville, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 33 automated license plate readers in and around Northville — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 33 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Northville, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Northville itself.
The rest sit in Northville Charter Township (15), Livonia (13), Novi (4), Farmington Hills (1).
33 of them name an operator in the record: Northville Township Police Department (10), Schoolcraft College Police Department (8), Meijer (6), Livonia Police Department (5), Novi Police Department (2), Farmington Hills Police Department (1), Saddle Ridge HOA (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 30 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 16 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Northville
The readers mapped around Northville break down as 21 Flock Safety, 6 Genetec, 2 Flock Safety (installation in progress). Named operators in the reports: Northville Township Police Department, Schoolcraft College Police Department, Meijer, Livonia Police Department, Novi Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Haggerty Road — 8 readers
- 6 Mile Road — 4 readers
- 7 Mile Road — 4 readers
- 8 Mile Road — 4 readers
- Saint Joe's Parkway — 4 readers
- Silver Spring Drive — 2 readers
- Livonia — 2 readers
- VisTaTech Drive — 2 readers
- Beck Road — 1 reader
Northville 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 31 traffic. Operators named on the record: Northville Township Police Department (9), Schoolcraft College Police Department (8), Meijer (6).
Camera activity around Northville, last 30 days
8 newly reported in our hourly change log for Northville. Latest change logged Aug 30, 2026.
What’s watching Northville
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 Northville — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Northville (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Northville
- 6 new license plate readers reported around Northville, MI
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Northville, MI
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Northville, MI
What you can do in Northville
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.
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Cameras near Northville
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).