Flock & ALPR Cameras in Swartz Creek, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 11 automated license plate readers in and around Swartz Creek — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 12 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Swartz Creek, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 6 of them sit inside Swartz Creek itself.
The rest sit in Mundy Charter Township (4), Flint Charter Township (2).
9 of them name an operator in the record: Metro Police Authority of Genesee County (4), Meijer (3), Flint 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 Swartz Creek in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Swartz Creek
The readers mapped around Swartz Creek break down as 9 Flock Safety, 3 Genetec. Named operators in the reports: Metro Police Authority of Genesee County, Meijer, Flint Township Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Torrey Road — 2 readers
- Linden Road — 2 readers
- Morrish Road — 2 readers
- Miller Road — 2 readers
- Hill Road — 1 reader
- South Linden Road — 1 reader
- Bristol Road — 1 reader
- Genesee Valley Trail — 1 reader
Swartz Creek in the Genesee County picture
Genesee County has 223 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #441 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 20.6% nationally. That’s across 404,087 residents and 1,817 road miles. By road density that is 0.12 cameras per road mile, in the top 3.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 12 traffic. Operators named on the record: Metro Police Authority of Genesee County (4), Meijer (3), Flint Township Police Department (2).
What’s watching Swartz Creek
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 Swartz Creek — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Swartz Creek (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Swartz Creek
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 Swartz Creek
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).