Flock & ALPR Cameras in Sterling Heights, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 17 automated license plate readers in and around Sterling Heights — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 17 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Sterling Heights, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 15 of them sit inside Sterling Heights itself.
The rest sit in Troy (2).
17 of them name an operator in the record: Sterling Heights Police Department (12), Lowe's (4), Troy Police Department (Michigan) (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 Sterling Heights in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 16:22 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Sterling Heights
The readers mapped around Sterling Heights break down as 17 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Sterling Heights Police Department, Lowe's, Troy Police Department (Michigan). The first camera here was reported in Oct 2023; the most recent in Jun 2025.
- Van Dyke Avenue — 6 readers
- Ryan Road — 3 readers
- Metropolitan Parkway — 3 readers
- Dequindre Road — 2 readers
- Utica Road — 1 reader
- East Big Beaver Road — 1 reader
- Plumridge Boulevard — 1 reader
Sterling Heights MI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Sterling Heights MI PD runs 24 cameras of its own, has logged 373 plate-database searches, has captured 974,145 vehicle records. Its network connects to 153 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Sterling Heights in the Macomb County picture
Macomb County has 230 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,137 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 877,624 residents and 2,619 road miles. By road density that is 0.09 cameras per road mile, in the top 5.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 17 traffic. Operators named on the record: Sterling Heights Police Department (12), Lowe's (4), Troy Police Department (Michigan) (1).
What’s watching Sterling Heights
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 Sterling Heights — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Sterling Heights (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Sterling Heights
- Sterling Heights PD arrest woman accused of lighting DTE utility poles on fire
- Sterling Heights nears Flock decision
- Residents clash over Flock cameras in Sterling Heights
- Sterling Heights City Council plans Flock vote in October
What you can do in Sterling Heights
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 Sterling Heights
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).