Flock & ALPR Cameras in Sturgis, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around Sturgis — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 7 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Sturgis, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 4 of them sit inside Sturgis itself.
The rest sit in Sturgis Township (3).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Sturgis in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Sturgis
The readers mapped around Sturgis break down as 7 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in May 2026.
- South Centerville Road — 2 readers
- Fawn River Road — 1 reader
- Wade Road — 1 reader
- State Highway 66 — 1 reader
- West Chicago Road — 1 reader
- East Chicago Road — 1 reader
Sturgis MI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Sturgis MI PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 73 other agencies.
Sturgis in the St. Joseph County picture
St. Joseph County has 16 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,132 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 60,870 residents and 1,146 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 36.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 7 traffic.
What’s watching Sturgis
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 Sturgis — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Sturgis (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Sturgis
What you can do in Sturgis
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 Sturgis
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).