Flock & ALPR Cameras in Royal Oak, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Royal Oak — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Royal Oak in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 18:10 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Royal Oak
The readers mapped around Royal Oak break down as 2 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Royal Oak Police Department. Every report here dates to Apr 2025.
- Woodward Avenue — 2 readers
Royal Oak MI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Royal Oak MI PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 75 other agencies.
Royal Oak 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 2 traffic. Operators named on the record: Royal Oak Police Department (2).
What’s watching Royal Oak
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 Royal Oak — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Royal Oak (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Royal Oak
What you can do in Royal Oak
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.
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Cameras near Royal Oak
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).