Flock & ALPR Cameras in Traverse City, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 33 automated license plate readers in and around Traverse City — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 33 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Traverse City, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 3 of them sit inside Traverse City itself.
The rest sit in Garfield Township (20), East Bay Township (8), Peninsula Township (2).
20 of them name an operator in the record: Grand Traverse County Sheriff's Office (13), Great Wolf Lodge (4), Grand Traverse County Sheriff's Department (2), Lowe's (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 Traverse City 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 Traverse City
The readers mapped around Traverse City break down as 33 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Grand Traverse County Sheriff's Office, Great Wolf Lodge, Grand Traverse County Sheriff's Department, Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- West South Airport Road — 5 readers
- East Hammond Road — 3 readers
- North US 31 South — 3 readers
- Cass Road — 2 readers
- Franke Road — 2 readers
- US 31 North — 2 readers
- North Keystone Road — 1 reader
- North Garfield Road — 1 reader
- Silver Lake Road — 1 reader
- Mall Trail — 1 reader
- East Shore Road — 1 reader
- LaFranier Road — 1 reader
+ 10 more streets and roads mapped around Traverse City — all on the live map above.
Traverse City MI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Traverse City MI PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 56 other agencies.
Traverse City in the Grand Traverse County picture
Grand Traverse County has 31 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #950 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 95,757 residents and 1,547 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 28.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 29 traffic. Operators named on the record: Grand Traverse County Sheriff's Office (13), Great Wolf Lodge (4), Grand Traverse County Sheriff's Department (2).
Camera activity around Traverse City, last 30 days
4 newly reported in our hourly change log for Traverse City. Latest change logged Sep 6, 2026.
What’s watching Traverse City
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 Traverse City — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Traverse City (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Traverse City
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Traverse City, MI
- AUTOMATIC LICENSE PLATE READERS: Cameras taking 'vehicle fingerprints' in Garfield
What you can do in Traverse City
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 Traverse City
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).