Does Sterling Heights have Flock cameras?
Yes, as of its portal snapshot. Sterling Heights MI PD’s Flock transparency portal listed 20 Flock Safety license plate readers when The News & Observer captured it, between July 2023 and April 2024. On October 5, 2026, FlockDetour’s map showed 30 plate readers within 3.5 miles of Sterling Heights’s center. The live portal has the agency’s current figures.
Plate readers mapped around Sterling Heights today
- Mapped plate readers
- 30
- Attributed to Flock Safety
- 30
Counted October 5, 2026 within 3.5 miles of the center of Sterling Heights, a circle the size of its land area. A circle is not the legal boundary, so it can include cameras run by neighboring agencies or businesses, and it cannot show unmapped or mobile readers.
What the portal listed in 2023-24
- Cameras listed
- 20
- Days of retention listed
- 30
- Searches in 30 days
- 474
- Outside orgs with access
- 1
The portal listed a retention period of 30 days, after which plate reads are deleted. Retention is the number that decides how much of your ordinary driving is searchable at any moment — a 30-day window means a month of your movements, not just the day you were near a camera.
The portal reported 474 searches of that data in the 30 days before it was captured, against 870,060 vehicle detections over the same period.
It also reported 369 hotlist hits, reads that matched a list the agency or one of its partners had loaded.
1 outside organizations had access to this agency’s plate data when the portal was captured. Sharing is the part of ALPR that surprises people most: a read collected on your street is searchable by departments you have never heard of and never voted for.
A blank field means the portal did not publish that number, not that it was zero. Figures can have changed since 2024; the live portal is the current source.
Where these cameras are
16 camera sites in this agency’s deployment have been matched to a location and appear on the FlockDetour map. Open the map to see them against the roads you actually drive, and to compare a route with a detour around them.
Mapped sites come from open community data and are a lower bound on what is installed — they will not always match the portal count above, which is the agency’s own figure.
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Where these figures come from
Flock Safety publishes a transparency portal for each customer agency. The portal figures above were captured by The News & Observer / McClatchy (private_eyes) between July 2023 and April 2024 and are shown unchanged. Where the live portal differs, the portal is right. The mapped count comes from FlockDetour’s own public camera data, counted October 5, 2026.
- Sterling Heights MI PD transparency portalFlock Safety’s official disclosure for this agency
- The News & Observer / McClatchy (private_eyes)The dataset this page is built from
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