Flock & ALPR Cameras in Bellefontaine, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 19 automated license plate readers in and around Bellefontaine — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 19 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Bellefontaine, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 15 of them sit inside Bellefontaine itself.
The rest sit in Liberty Township (3), Lake Township (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (1). 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 Bellefontaine in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 16:21 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Bellefontaine
The readers mapped around Bellefontaine break down as 17 Flock Safety, 2 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- South Main Street — 4 readers
- Township Road 32 South — 2 readers
- Ludlow Road — 1 reader
- Gunntown Road — 1 reader
- North Main Street — 1 reader
- County Road 200 — 1 reader
- County Road 10 — 1 reader
- East Sandusky Avenue — 1 reader
- North Troy Street — 1 reader
- Township Road 185 — 1 reader
- West Lake Avenue — 1 reader
- West Watson Way — 1 reader
+ 3 more streets and roads mapped around Bellefontaine — all on the live map above.
Bellefontaine OH PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Bellefontaine OH PD runs 15 cameras of its own, has logged 161 plate-database searches, has captured 112,447 vehicle records. Its network connects to 441 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Akron OH PD, Alliance OH PD, Amberley Village OH PD, Amherst OH PD, Arcanum OH PD, Archbold OH PD, Ashland County OH SO, Ashland OH PD.
Bellefontaine in the Logan County picture
Logan County has 15 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #943 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 46,140 residents and 1,203 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 38.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 17 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (1).
Camera activity around Bellefontaine, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Bellefontaine. Latest change logged Sep 6, 2026.
What’s watching Bellefontaine
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 Bellefontaine — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Bellefontaine (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Bellefontaine
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Bellefontaine, OH
- Bellefontaine police latest area department to install license plate reading cameras
What you can do in Bellefontaine
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 Bellefontaine
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).