Flock & ALPR Cameras in Blanchester, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around Blanchester — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 8 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Blanchester, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 7 of them sit inside Blanchester itself.
The rest sit in Harlan Township (1).
6 of them name an operator in the record: LAW ENFORCEMENT (6). 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 Blanchester in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:25 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Blanchester
The readers mapped around Blanchester break down as 8 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: LAW ENFORCEMENT. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Cherry Street — 2 readers
- North Broadway Street — 1 reader
- SR 28;SR 123 — 1 reader
- SR 123 — 1 reader
- West Main Street — 1 reader
- South Broadway Street — 1 reader
- Fayetteville Road — 1 reader
OH - Blanchester PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, OH - Blanchester PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 70 other agencies.
Blanchester in the Clinton County picture
Clinton County has 31 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #226 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 10.5% nationally. That’s across 42,014 residents and 1,038 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 8 traffic. Operators named on the record: LAW ENFORCEMENT (6).
Camera activity around Blanchester, last 30 days
4 newly reported, 5 removed in our hourly change log for Blanchester. Latest change logged Aug 15, 2026.
What’s watching Blanchester
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 Blanchester — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Blanchester (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Blanchester
- 5 license plate readers reported removed near Blanchester, OH
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Blanchester, OH
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Blanchester, OH
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Blanchester, OH
What you can do in Blanchester
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 Blanchester
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).