Flock & ALPR Cameras in Rapid City, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 1 automated license plate readers in and around Rapid City — 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 Rapid City, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Rapid City itself.
The rest sit in Milton Township (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 13 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Rapid City in the Kalkaska County picture
Kalkaska County has 0 reported cameras county-wide. That’s across 18,116 residents and 1,645 road miles.
What’s watching Rapid City
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 Rapid City — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Rapid City (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Rapid City
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 Rapid City
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).