Flock & ALPR Cameras in Rochester, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 14 automated license plate readers in and around Rochester — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 14 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Rochester, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Rochester itself.
The rest sit in Oakland Charter Township (6), Rochester Hills (4), Shelby Charter Township (4).
11 of them name an operator in the record: Oakland County Sheriff's Office (7), Shelby Township Police Department (4). 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 10 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Rochester
The readers mapped around Rochester break down as 14 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Oakland County Sheriff's Office, Shelby Township Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- North Rochester Road — 2 readers
- 23 Mile Road — 1 reader
- Dequindre Road — 1 reader
- North Livernois Road — 1 reader
- South Livernois Road — 1 reader
- South Rochester Road — 1 reader
- East Tienken Road — 1 reader
- Silver Bell Road — 1 reader
- 25 Mile Road — 1 reader
- Hamlin Road — 1 reader
- East Gunn Road — 1 reader
- East Buell Road — 1 reader
+ 1 more streets and roads mapped around Rochester — all on the live map above.
Rochester in the Oakland County picture
Oakland County has 510 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #724 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,272,294 residents and 4,771 road miles. By road density that is 0.11 cameras per road mile, in the top 4.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 13 traffic. Operators named on the record: Oakland County Sheriff's Office (7), Shelby Township Police Department (4).
Camera activity around Rochester, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Rochester. Latest change logged Sep 10, 2026.
What’s watching Rochester
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 Rochester — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Rochester (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Rochester
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 Rochester
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).