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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Ada, Ohio

Volunteers have reported 1 automated license plate readers in and around Ada — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 1 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Ada, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Ada itself.

The rest sit in Liberty Township (1).

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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Reported cameras nearby
#502
of 556 Ohio cities tracked
0.1%
of Ohio’s reported cameras
Live camera map 1 reported cameras around Ada, Ohio
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Ada

No new reports near Ada in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 19:53 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Ada

The readers mapped around Ada break down as 1 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Nov 2025.

  • SR 235;SR 309 — 1 reader

Ada in the Hardin County picture

Hardin County has 7 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,261 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 30,527 residents and 747 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 45.2% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 1 traffic.

What’s watching Ada

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

The latest around Ada

What you can do in Ada

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 Ada

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