Flock & ALPR Cameras in Utica, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 32 automated license plate readers in and around Utica — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 32 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Utica, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 4 of them sit inside Utica itself.
The rest sit in Shelby Charter Township (16), Sterling Heights (7), Clinton Township (4), Macomb Township (1).
30 of them name an operator in the record: Shelby Township Police Department (16), Sterling Heights Police Department (5), Lowe's (4), Utica Police Department (Michigan) (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 Utica in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:26 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Utica
The readers mapped around Utica break down as 32 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Shelby Township Police Department, Sterling Heights Police Department, Utica Police Department (Michigan), Lowe's, Troy Police Department (Michigan). The first camera here was reported in Aug 2023; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Hall Road — 7 readers
- Van Dyke Avenue — 4 readers
- Schoenherr Road — 3 readers
- Auburn Road — 3 readers
- Hayes Road — 2 readers
- Dequindre Road — 2 readers
- Utica Park Boulevard — 2 readers
- West Utica Road — 2 readers
- Mound Road — 2 readers
- 21 Mile Road — 1 reader
- Dobry Drive — 1 reader
- M 53 — 1 reader
+ 2 more streets and roads mapped around Utica — all on the live map above.
Utica MI PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Utica MI PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 26 other agencies.
Utica 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 32 traffic. Operators named on the record: Shelby Township Police Department (16), Sterling Heights Police Department (5), Utica Police Department (Michigan) (4).
Camera activity around Utica, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Utica. Latest change logged Aug 24, 2026.
What’s watching Utica
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 Utica — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Utica (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Utica
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 Utica
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).