Flock & ALPR Cameras in Sylvan Lake, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 7 automated license plate readers in and around Sylvan Lake — 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 Sylvan Lake, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Sylvan Lake itself.
The rest sit in Bloomfield Township (4), West Bloomfield Township (2), Waterford Township (1).
7 of them name an operator in the record: Bloomfield Township Police Department (3), West Bloomfield Police Department (2), Lowe's (1), Waterford Police Department (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 Sylvan Lake 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 Sylvan Lake
The readers mapped around Sylvan Lake break down as 7 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Bloomfield Township Police Department, West Bloomfield Police Department, Waterford Police Department, Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Apr 2025.
- Telegraph Road — 2 readers
- West Square Lake Road — 2 readers
- North Telegraph Road — 1 reader
- South Telegraph Road — 1 reader
- Middlebelt Road — 1 reader
Sylvan Lake in the Oakland County picture
Oakland County has 510 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #724 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,272,294 residents and 4,771 road miles. By road density that is 0.11 cameras per road mile, in the top 4.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 7 traffic. Operators named on the record: Bloomfield Township Police Department (3), West Bloomfield Police Department (2), Waterford Police Department (1).
What’s watching Sylvan Lake
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 Sylvan Lake — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Sylvan Lake (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Sylvan Lake
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 Sylvan Lake
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).