Flock & ALPR Cameras in Petoskey, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Petoskey — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 5 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Petoskey, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Petoskey itself.
The rest sit in Bear Creek Township (5).
3 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (3). 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 Petoskey in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 20:25 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Petoskey
The readers mapped around Petoskey break down as 5 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- Lears Road — 3 readers
- Anderson Road — 2 readers
Petoskey in the Emmet County picture
Emmet County has 5 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,573 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 34,159 residents and 1,109 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 63.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 5 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (3).
What’s watching Petoskey
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 Petoskey — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Petoskey (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Petoskey
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 Petoskey
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).