Flock & ALPR Cameras in Southgate, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 20 automated license plate readers in and around Southgate — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 20 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Southgate, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Southgate itself.
The rest sit in Taylor (10), Wyandotte (7), Lincoln Park (3).
18 of them name an operator in the record: Taylor Police Department (8), Wyandotte Police Department (7), Meijer (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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No new reports near Southgate in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 11:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Southgate
The readers mapped around Southgate break down as 17 Flock Safety, 3 Genetec. Named operators in the reports: Taylor Police Department, Wyandotte Police Department, Meijer. The first camera here was reported in May 2024; the most recent in Apr 2025.
- Eureka Road — 8 readers
- Racho Road — 4 readers
- Fort Street — 4 readers
- Dix Highway — 3 readers
- Goddard Road — 1 reader
Southgate in the Wayne County picture
Wayne County has 1,133 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #330 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 15.4% nationally. That’s across 1,773,767 residents and 4,007 road miles. By road density that is 0.28 cameras per road mile, in the top 0.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 20 traffic. Operators named on the record: Taylor Police Department (8), Wyandotte Police Department (7), Meijer (3).
What’s watching Southgate
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 Southgate — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Southgate (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Southgate
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 Southgate
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).