Flock & ALPR Cameras in Boardman, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 22 automated license plate readers in and around Boardman — 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 Boardman, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Boardman itself.
The rest sit in Boardman Township (15), Youngstown (6).
20 of them name an operator in the record: Boardman Police Department (15), Youngstown Police Department (5). 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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- Sep 30 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Boardman
The readers mapped around Boardman break down as 22 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Boardman Police Department, Youngstown Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2025; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- Market Street — 6 readers
- Southern Boulevard — 2 readers
- Indianola Road — 1 reader
- Hitchcock Road — 1 reader
- West Boulevard — 1 reader
- Glenwood Avenue — 1 reader
- Stadium Drive — 1 reader
- Southwoods Avenue — 1 reader
- Nisonger Drive — 1 reader
- East Midlothian Boulevard — 1 reader
- Applewood Boulevard — 1 reader
- Canfield Road — 1 reader
+ 4 more streets and roads mapped around Boardman — all on the live map above.
Boardman in the Mahoning County picture
Mahoning County has 93 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #709 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 227,063 residents and 1,487 road miles. By road density that is 0.06 cameras per road mile, in the top 9.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 22 traffic. Operators named on the record: Boardman Police Department (15), Youngstown Police Department (5).
What’s watching Boardman
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 Boardman — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Boardman (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Boardman
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 Boardman
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).