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Flock & ALPR Cameras in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan

Volunteers have reported 6 automated license plate readers in and around West Bloomfield Township — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 6 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of West Bloomfield Township, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 5 of them sit inside West Bloomfield Township itself.

The rest sit in Farmington Hills (1).

6 of them name an operator in the record: West Bloomfield Police Department (5), Farmington Hills 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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Reported cameras nearby
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of Michigan’s reported cameras
Live camera map 6 reported cameras around West Bloomfield Township, Michigan
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Camera Watch Recently reported near West Bloomfield Township

No new reports near West Bloomfield Township in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in West Bloomfield Township

The readers mapped around West Bloomfield Township break down as 5 Flock Safety, 1 Avigilon. Named operators in the reports: West Bloomfield Police Department, Farmington Hills Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Dec 2025.

  • Drake Road — 2 readers
  • Civic Center Drive — 2 readers
  • West Maple Road — 1 reader
  • Farmington Road — 1 reader

West Bloomfield Township 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 6 traffic. Operators named on the record: West Bloomfield Police Department (5), Farmington Hills Police Department (1).

What’s watching West Bloomfield Township

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 West Bloomfield Township — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to West Bloomfield Township (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

What you can do in West Bloomfield Township

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.

Cameras near West Bloomfield Township

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).