Flock & ALPR Cameras in Saginaw, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 40 automated license plate readers in and around Saginaw — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 7 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Saginaw
The readers mapped around Saginaw break down as 26 Avigilon, 14 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Saginaw Police Department, The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in May 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- North Michigan Avenue — 5 readers
- South Michigan Avenue — 5 readers
- Mackinaw Road — 4 readers
- Webber Street — 4 readers
- West Holland Street — 3 readers
- Court Street — 3 readers
- Williams Street — 3 readers
- West Remington Street — 2 readers
- Stephens Street — 2 readers
- Vermont Street — 2 readers
- I 675 — 1 reader
- Symphony Lane — 1 reader
+ 5 more streets and roads mapped around Saginaw — all on the live map above.
Saginaw MI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Saginaw MI PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 68 other agencies.
Saginaw in the Saginaw County picture
Saginaw County has 54 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,064 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 189,210 residents and 1,549 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 17.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 39 traffic. Operators named on the record: Saginaw Police Department (32), The Home Depot (1).
Camera activity around Saginaw, last 30 days
4 newly reported in our hourly change log for Saginaw. Latest change logged Sep 7, 2026.
What’s watching Saginaw
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 Saginaw — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Saginaw (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Saginaw
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Saginaw, MI
- On the agenda: Saginaw meeting — Flock Safety (Jul 14)
- On the agenda: Saginaw meeting — Flock Safety (Jun 23)
- On the agenda: Saginaw meeting — Flock Safety (May 5)
What you can do in Saginaw
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 Saginaw
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).