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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Parchment, Michigan

Volunteers have reported 1 automated license plate readers in and around Parchment — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 1 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Parchment, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Parchment itself.

The rest sit in Cooper Charter Township (1).

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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Reported cameras nearby
#257
of 281 Michigan cities tracked
0.1%
of Michigan’s reported cameras
Live camera map 1 reported cameras around Parchment, Michigan
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Parchment

No new reports near Parchment in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 23:10 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Parchment

The readers mapped around Parchment break down as 1 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Feb 2026.

  • East D Avenue — 1 reader

Parchment in the Kalamazoo County picture

Kalamazoo County has 123 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #587 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 261,437 residents and 1,510 road miles. By road density that is 0.08 cameras per road mile, in the top 6.3% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 1 traffic.

Camera activity around Parchment, last 30 days

1 removed in our hourly change log for Parchment. Latest change logged Sep 9, 2026.

What’s watching Parchment

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 Parchment — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Parchment (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

What you can do in Parchment

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.

Cameras near Parchment

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).