Flock & ALPR Cameras in Barberton, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 23 automated license plate readers in and around Barberton — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 23 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Barberton, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 18 of them sit inside Barberton itself.
The rest sit in Akron (4), New Franklin (1).
7 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (7). 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 Barberton in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 00:32 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Barberton
The readers mapped around Barberton break down as 18 Flock Safety, 5 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Wooster Road North — 4 readers
- Robinson Avenue — 3 readers
- Kenmore Boulevard — 2 readers
- East State Street — 2 readers
- West State Street — 2 readers
- 5th Street Northeast — 2 readers
- Battles Avenue — 1 reader
- Wooster Road West — 1 reader
- Waterloo Road — 1 reader
- 5th Street Southeast — 1 reader
- East Avenue — 1 reader
- West Hopocan Avenue — 1 reader
+ 2 more streets and roads mapped around Barberton — all on the live map above.
Barberton OH PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Barberton OH PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 50 other agencies.
Barberton in the Summit County picture
Summit County has 358 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #293 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 13.7% nationally. That’s across 538,087 residents and 2,102 road miles. By road density that is 0.17 cameras per road mile, in the top 2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 20 traffic, 2 town, 1 public. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (7).
What’s watching Barberton
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 Barberton — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Barberton (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Barberton
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 Barberton
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).