Flock & ALPR cameras in Flint, MI

Flint Police Department is the dominant operator, with 41 of the 304 mapped cameras — 13% of the metro, ahead of Genesee County Sheriff's Office on 37. That lead share ranks 202nd of the 251 metros BanditKin tracks, so Flint is a comparatively spread-out network.

Private businesses appear on Flint's map: Meijer (6), Bridge Valley HOA (5), Knollwood Village Apartments (4) sit inside the twenty largest operators. Those cameras are not run by any police agency, though their reads can be shared.

For the thing that actually matters when routing, Flint is well documented: 297 of its 304 mapped cameras — 98% — record which way they face, ranking 21st of 251 on bearing coverage.

Public records cover 9 agencies around Flint in the EFF Atlas of Surveillance against 24 operators on the map — the difference between a records project and a mapping project, not a contradiction.

The network is regional rather than municipal. Beyond Flint Police Department, the operator table runs through Grand Blanc Township Police Department, Davison Township Police Department, Fenton Police Department, Burton Police Department and Metro Police Authority of Genesee County, with the Genesee County Sheriff's Office at 37 — none of which individually dominates the metro.

Read from the live map on 3 September 2026. The underlying records are OpenStreetMap entries plus community submissions — nobody who operates a camera is obliged to declare it, so these are the documented minimum rather than the full picture. The metro is a box roughly 50 miles across centred on Flint.

Flint ranks 127th of the 251 metro areas BanditKin tracks by mapped cameras, between Fresno, CA and Grand Rapids, MI, and 104th by operator count.

Mid-table on size; 21st of 251 on bearing coverage at 98%, and 202nd on lead-operator share at 13%.

Ranked against the 251 metro areas BanditKin tracks, every one read from the live map on 3 September 2026. Metro areas are drawn as a box around the city centre, so neighbouring metros can share cameras and these counts must never be added together.

These are the 20 largest of 24 operators. Where OpenStreetMap names an operator we use that name; otherwise the camera is attributed to whichever jurisdiction it stands in (73 cameras here), which is a sound inference rather than a confirmed fact. 38 cameras record no operator of any kind.

Manufacturer is a free-text field, so spellings and legal names have been consolidated here. 3 of 304 mapped cameras name no manufacturer at all, which makes the actual distribution broader than shown. These count cameras on the map, not purchase orders.

They are easy to miss and hard to unsee — a small rectangular box on a narrow pole near a junction, generally with a solar panel and a stubby barrel lens. Where the data records how a camera around Flint is mounted, the split is:

One camera covers one approach, so its heading is what decides which journeys end up recorded. Around Flint the mapped bearings distribute like this:

Bearings come from public map data and describe an approximate capture zone, never an exact field of view. 7 mapped cameras have no recorded bearing.

Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Atlas of Surveillance. Summaries are the Atlas's own wording, trimmed to a complete sentence.

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