Flock & ALPR Cameras in Amherst, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 21 automated license plate readers in and around Amherst — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 21 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Amherst, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 13 of them sit inside Amherst itself.
The rest sit in Lorain (6), Amherst Township (1), Oberlin (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Amherst in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:11 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Amherst
The readers mapped around Amherst break down as 21 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- North Leavitt Road — 4 readers
- Buck Horn Boulevard — 3 readers
- North Lake Street — 2 readers
- Oak Point Road — 2 readers
- South Leavitt Road — 2 readers
- Leavitt Road — 2 readers
- North Main Street — 1 reader
- Middle Ridge Road — 1 reader
- Pyle South Amherst Road — 1 reader
- South Lake Street — 1 reader
- Milan Avenue — 1 reader
- Cooper Foster Park Road — 1 reader
Amherst OH PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Amherst OH PD runs 12 cameras of its own, has captured 171,323 vehicle records. Its network connects to 56 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Amherst in the Lorain County picture
Lorain County has 150 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #572 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 314,588 residents and 1,477 road miles. By road density that is 0.10 cameras per road mile, in the top 4.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 21 traffic.
Camera activity around Amherst, last 30 days
1 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Amherst. Latest change logged Sep 7, 2026.
What’s watching Amherst
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 Amherst — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Amherst (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Amherst
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 Amherst
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).