Flock & ALPR Cameras in Shelby, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 36 automated license plate readers in and around Shelby — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 36 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Shelby, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Shelby itself.
The rest sit in Shelby Charter Township (32), Macomb Township (2), Washington Charter Township (2).
29 of them name an operator in the record: Shelby Township Police Department (26), Macomb County Sheriff's Office (3). 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 13 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 13 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Shelby
The readers mapped around Shelby break down as 33 Flock Safety, 1 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Shelby Township Police Department, Macomb County Sheriff's Office. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2023; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- 23 Mile Road — 9 readers
- Van Dyke Avenue — 4 readers
- Schoenherr Road — 3 readers
- Shelby Road — 2 readers
- Jack Milliard Boulevard — 2 readers
- Ryan Road — 1 reader
- 25 Mile Road — 1 reader
- 24 Mile Road — 1 reader
- 26 Mile Road — 1 reader
- Van Dyke Road — 1 reader
- Mound Road — 1 reader
- Macomb Orchard Trail — 1 reader
+ 7 more streets and roads mapped around Shelby — all on the live map above.
Shelby MI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Shelby MI PD runs 49 cameras of its own, has logged 304 plate-database searches, has captured 768,049 vehicle records. Its network connects to 2,598 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: 18th Judicial District Drug Task Force - TN PD, Abbotsford WI PD, Abington Township PA PD, Acworth GA PD, Ada County ID SO, Adairville KY PD, Adams County IL SO, Adams County IN SO.
Shelby in the Macomb County picture
Macomb County has 230 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,137 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 877,624 residents and 2,619 road miles. By road density that is 0.09 cameras per road mile, in the top 5.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 34 traffic. Operators named on the record: Shelby Township Police Department (26), Macomb County Sheriff's Office (3).
Camera activity around Shelby, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Shelby. Latest change logged Sep 4, 2026.
What’s watching Shelby
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 Shelby — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Shelby (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Shelby
What you can do in Shelby
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 Shelby
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).