Flock & ALPR Cameras in Southfield, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 42 automated license plate readers in and around Southfield — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 46 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Southfield, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 35 of them sit inside Southfield itself.
The rest sit in Detroit (7), Oak Park (3), Lathrup Village (1).
45 of them name an operator in the record: Southfield Police Department (13), Southfield Town Center (11), Oakland Towne Square (5), Detroit Police Department (4), Goldoller (3), Michigan State Police (3), Oak Park Police Department (3), ROCO Real Estate (2). 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 Southfield in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 23:25 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Southfield
The readers mapped around Southfield break down as 42 Flock Safety, 4 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Southfield Police Department, Southfield Town Center, Oakland Towne Square, Detroit Police Department, Michigan State Police. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Feb 2026.
- Northwestern Highway — 6 readers
- Towne Square — 6 readers
- Southfield Road — 5 readers
- Evergreen Road — 3 readers
- Lahser Road — 3 readers
- Shiawassee Road — 3 readers
- Town Center — 3 readers
- West 7 Mile Road — 3 readers
- Civic Center Drive — 2 readers
- Telegraph Road — 2 readers
- Evans — 2 readers
- Walden Road West — 1 reader
+ 7 more streets and roads mapped around Southfield — all on the live map above.
Southfield MI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Southfield MI PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 46 other agencies.
Southfield 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 44 traffic, 2 traffi. Operators named on the record: Southfield Police Department (13), Southfield Town Center (11), Oakland Towne Square (5).
What’s watching Southfield
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 Southfield — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Southfield (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Southfield
What you can do in Southfield
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 Southfield
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).