Flock & ALPR Cameras in Paw Paw, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 6 automated license plate readers in and around Paw Paw — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 6 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Paw Paw, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Paw Paw itself.
The rest sit in Paw Paw Township (3), Antwerp Township (2), Waverly Township (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Paw Paw 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 Paw Paw
The readers mapped around Paw Paw break down as 6 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2026; the most recent in May 2026.
- West Michigan Avenue — 2 readers
- East Red Arrow Highway — 2 readers
- M-40 — 1 reader
- M 43 — 1 reader
Paw Paw in the Van Buren County picture
Van Buren County has 9 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,673 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 75,681 residents and 1,231 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 51.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 6 traffic.
What’s watching Paw Paw
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 Paw Paw — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Paw Paw (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Paw Paw
- On the agenda: Paw Paw Board of Commissioners — ALPR (Nov 10)
- On the agenda: Paw Paw Finance Committee — ALPR (Nov 3)
What you can do in Paw Paw
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 Paw Paw
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).