Flock & ALPR Cameras in Westwood, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 42 automated license plate readers in and around Westwood — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 42 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Westwood, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Westwood itself.
The rest sit in Oshtemo Charter Township (24), Kalamazoo (14), Kalamazoo Charter Township (4).
4 of them name an operator in the record: Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety (2), Lowe's (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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- Sep 30 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 30 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 30 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 30 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
📷 12 new license plate readers just reported around Westwood, MI. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #Westwood
Where the cameras are in Westwood
The readers mapped around Westwood break down as 30 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's, Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- South Drake Road — 5 readers
- West KL Avenue — 3 readers
- West Michigan Avenue — 3 readers
- Stadium Drive — 3 readers
- South 11th Street — 2 readers
- South Howard Street — 2 readers
- Campus Drive — 2 readers
- Goldsworth Valley Drive — 2 readers
- Emajean Street — 2 readers
- Douglas Avenue — 2 readers
- West Main Street — 2 readers
- Alamo Avenue — 1 reader
+ 1 more streets and roads mapped around Westwood — all on the live map above.
Westwood in the Kalamazoo County picture
Kalamazoo County has 123 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #587 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 261,437 residents and 1,510 road miles. By road density that is 0.08 cameras per road mile, in the top 6.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 24 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (2), Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety (2).
What’s watching Westwood
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 Westwood — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Westwood (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Westwood
What you can do in Westwood
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 Westwood
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).