Flock & ALPR Cameras in Schoolcraft, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 1 automated license plate readers in and around Schoolcraft — 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 Schoolcraft, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Schoolcraft itself.
The rest sit in Portage (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Portage Department of Public Safety Police Division (1). 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 Schoolcraft in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 18:09 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Schoolcraft
The readers mapped around Schoolcraft break down as 1 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Portage Department of Public Safety Police Division. Every report here dates to Sep 2025.
- Shaver Road — 1 reader
Schoolcraft in the Kalamazoo County picture
Kalamazoo County has 123 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #587 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 261,437 residents and 1,510 road miles. By road density that is 0.08 cameras per road mile, in the top 6.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 1 traffic. Operators named on the record: Portage Department of Public Safety Police Division (1).
What’s watching Schoolcraft
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 Schoolcraft — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Schoolcraft (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Schoolcraft
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 Schoolcraft
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).