Flock & ALPR Cameras in Spring Arbor, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 6 automated license plate readers in and around Spring Arbor — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 6 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Spring Arbor, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 3 of them sit inside Spring Arbor itself.
The rest sit in Spring Arbor Township (2), Parma Township (1).
5 of them name an operator in the record: Spring Arbor University (3), Spring Arbor Township Police Department (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 Spring Arbor in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 07:12 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Spring Arbor
The readers mapped around Spring Arbor break down as 5 Flock Safety, 1 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: Spring Arbor University, Spring Arbor Township Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Second Street — 2 readers
- Spring Arbor Road — 2 readers
- Cottage Street — 1 reader
- West Michigan Avenue — 1 reader
Spring Arbor MI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Spring Arbor MI PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 39 other agencies.
Spring Arbor in the Jackson County picture
Jackson County has 60 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #806 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 160,187 residents and 1,500 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 15.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 6 traffic. Operators named on the record: Spring Arbor University (3), Spring Arbor Township Police Department (2).
What’s watching Spring Arbor
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 Spring Arbor — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Spring Arbor (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Spring Arbor
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 Spring Arbor
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).