Flock & ALPR Cameras in Ashland, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 22 automated license plate readers in and around Ashland — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 22 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Ashland, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 20 of them sit inside Ashland itself.
The rest sit in Milton Township (2).
2 of them name an operator in the record: The Home Depot (2). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Ashland in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 22:16 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Ashland
The readers mapped around Ashland break down as 22 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Eastern Avenue — 3 readers
- Hillcrest Drive — 3 readers
- Sugarbush Drive — 3 readers
- Center Street — 2 readers
- US 250 — 2 readers
- Vernon Avenue — 1 reader
- Fairbanks Street — 1 reader
- US 42 — 1 reader
- SR 96 — 1 reader
- East Main Street — 1 reader
- US 42;US 250 — 1 reader
- South Cottage Street — 1 reader
+ 2 more streets and roads mapped around Ashland — all on the live map above.
Ashland OH PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Ashland OH PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 84 other agencies.
Ashland in the Ashland County picture
Ashland County has 31 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #383 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 17.9% nationally. That’s across 52,296 residents and 1,037 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 21.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 22 traffic. Operators named on the record: The Home Depot (2).
Camera activity around Ashland, last 30 days
1 newly reported, 2 removed in our hourly change log for Ashland. Latest change logged Aug 15, 2026.
What’s watching Ashland
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 Ashland — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Ashland (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Ashland
What you can do in Ashland
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 Ashland
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).