Flock & ALPR Cameras in Sparta, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Sparta — 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 Sparta, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Sparta itself.
The rest sit in Sparta Township (3), Algoma Township (1).
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Sparta in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 18:57 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Sparta
The readers mapped around Sparta break down as 5 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- M-37 — 2 readers
- Sparta Avenue Northwest — 1 reader
- 10 Mile Road Northwest — 1 reader
- North Division Avenue — 1 reader
Sparta in the Kent County picture
Kent County has 219 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #929 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 658,844 residents and 2,972 road miles. By road density that is 0.07 cameras per road mile, in the top 7.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 4 traffic.
What’s watching Sparta
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 Sparta — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Sparta (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Sparta
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 Sparta
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).