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Are there Flock cameras in Kalamazoo, Michigan?
Yep. Kalamazoo is flocked.
Are there Flock cameras in Kalamazoo, Michigan?
Yes. Public records in our database document Flock Safety automated license plate readers in Kalamazoo, Michigan recorded for Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office, Kalamazoo Township Police Department, Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety and Western Michigan University Police Department. Separately, 54 individual ALPR camera locations mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors fall inside the municipal boundary, 47 of them source-tagged Flock Safety.
- Agencies
- Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office, Kalamazoo Township Police Department, Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety and Western Michigan University Police Department
- Vendor
- Flock Safety
- County
- Kalamazoo County
- Records on file
- 4
- Mapped cameras inside boundary
- 54
- Source-tagged Flock Safety
- 47
- Latest cited source
- 9/25/2023
- Database last updated
- 2026-08-07
What's on file
Agency
Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office
Agency type
Sheriff
Jurisdiction
County
County
Kalamazoo County
State
Michigan (MI)
Vendor
No verified record currently in our database
The Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office received a grant for automated license plate readers.
Sources · record AOS014639
Agency
Kalamazoo Township Police Department
Agency type
Police
Jurisdiction
Municipal
County
Kalamazoo County
State
Michigan (MI)
Vendor
Flock Safety
The Kalamazoo Township Police Department has Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Verified deployment detail
No primary sources on file yet
Cameras / readers
Not publicly verified
Contract price
Not publicly verified
Contract start
Not publicly verified
Contract end
Not publicly verified
Data retention
Not publicly verified
Data sharing documented
Not publicly verified
Date approved
Not publicly verified
ALPR policy
Not publicly verified
Contract / public record
Not publicly verified
Flock transparency portal
Not publicly verified
Every value above is transcribed from the linked document. Nothing is estimated or inferred, and claims circulating on social media are never published here. “Not publicly verified” means we have not found a reliable primary or reported source — never that the thing does not exist.
Sources · record AOS015671
- Fox 17 ↗6/6/25
Agency
Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety
Agency type
Police
Jurisdiction
Municipal
County
Kalamazoo County
State
Michigan (MI)
Vendor
Flock Safety
The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety has Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Verified deployment detail
No primary sources on file yet
Cameras / readers
Not publicly verified
Contract price
Not publicly verified
Contract start
Not publicly verified
Contract end
Not publicly verified
Data retention
Not publicly verified
Data sharing documented
Not publicly verified
Date approved
Not publicly verified
ALPR policy
Not publicly verified
Contract / public record
Not publicly verified
Flock transparency portal
Not publicly verified
Every value above is transcribed from the linked document. Nothing is estimated or inferred, and claims circulating on social media are never published here. “Not publicly verified” means we have not found a reliable primary or reported source — never that the thing does not exist.
Sources · record AOS015672
- Fox 17 ↗6/6/25
Agency
Western Michigan University Police Department
Agency type
Police
Jurisdiction
University
County
Kalamazoo County
State
Michigan (MI)
Vendor
Flock Safety
The Western Michigan University Police Department has Flock Safety automated license plate readers.
Verified deployment detail
No primary sources on file yet
Cameras / readers
Not publicly verified
Contract price
Not publicly verified
Contract start
Not publicly verified
Contract end
Not publicly verified
Data retention
Not publicly verified
Data sharing documented
Not publicly verified
Date approved
Not publicly verified
ALPR policy
Not publicly verified
Contract / public record
Not publicly verified
Flock transparency portal
Not publicly verified
Every value above is transcribed from the linked document. Nothing is estimated or inferred, and claims circulating on social media are never published here. “Not publicly verified” means we have not found a reliable primary or reported source — never that the thing does not exist.
Sources · record AOS015680
- Fox 17 ↗6/6/25
What this record does not say
These entries document that an agency has been reported to use ALPR technology. They do not establish camera counts, exact locations, cost, retention periods or sharing policies unless the linked source says so.
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Sources & records
Everything on this page traces back to the records below. Where a record carries no linked document, we say so instead of filling the gap.
Documented deployment records
- Bureau of Justice Assistance, U.S. Department of Justice ↗Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office · 9/25/2023 · record AOS014639
- Fox 17 ↗Kalamazoo Township Police Department · 6/6/25 · record AOS015671
- Fox 17 ↗Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety · 6/6/25 · record AOS015672
- Fox 17 ↗Western Michigan University Police Department · 6/6/25 · record AOS015680
Deployment records come from the EFF Atlas of Surveillance ↗. Database last updated 2026-08-07.
Community-mapped camera locations
54 mapped camera points inside the Kalamazoo boundary, from OpenStreetMap contributors via the DeFlock ↗ dataset (ODbL). Each point links to its own OpenStreetMap record in the camera list on this page.
Camera points are matched to this municipality by point-in-polygon containment against US Census Bureau cartographic boundaries (2023) — the coordinate falls inside the municipal boundary. Containment is a statement about location only, never about ownership, operation, purchase or deployment.
Nearby documented deployments
Other Michigan communities with a record in our database — nearest by county first. Absence from this list is not evidence of absence.
- PortageVerified Flock
- Richland VillageVerified Flock
- AdrianVerified Flock
- AlbionVerified Flock
- AlleganVerified Flock
- Allen ParkVerified Flock
- AllendaleVerified Flock
- Auburn HillsVerified Flock
Camera counts, contract prices, retention and sharing policies are shown only where we found a primary source. Where they're missing, the information is not publicly verified — see the Flock Files for the documents we do have.
Data attribution
Portions of the surveillance deployment data on this site come from the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Atlas of Surveillance. atlasofsurveillance.org ↗ Are You Flocked? is independent and is not affiliated with the EFF or Flock Safety. Database last updated 2026-08-07.
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