Flock & ALPR Cameras in South Lyon, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around South Lyon — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 5 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of South Lyon, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside South Lyon itself.
The rest sit in Lyon Charter Township (4).
5 of them name an operator in the record: Oakland County Sheriff's Office (3), (Deactivated) South Lyon Police Department (1), South Lyon Police Department (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 South Lyon in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 09:50 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in South Lyon
The readers mapped around South Lyon break down as 5 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Oakland County Sheriff's Office, South Lyon Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in May 2026.
- 10 Mile Road — 2 readers
- Lyon Center Drive — 1 reader
- Kent Lake Road — 1 reader
- Grand River Avenue — 1 reader
South Lyon MI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, South Lyon MI PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 8 other agencies.
South Lyon 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 5 traffic. Operators named on the record: Oakland County Sheriff's Office (3), South Lyon Police Department (2).
What’s watching South Lyon
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 South Lyon — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to South Lyon (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around South Lyon
- South Lyon City Council votes to cover cameras, end contract with Flock
- South Lyon ends Flock Safety contract, orders cameras covered
- South Lyon moves to not renew Flock contract, covers cameras
- South Lyon City Council votes to deactivate Flock cameras
What you can do in South Lyon
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 South Lyon
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).