Flock & ALPR Cameras in Botkins, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 1 automated license plate readers in and around Botkins — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 1 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Botkins, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Botkins itself.
The rest sit in New Knoxville (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Botkins in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 16:19 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Botkins
The readers mapped around Botkins break down as 1 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Dec 2025.
- SR 219 — 1 reader
Botkins in the Shelby County picture
Shelby County has 25 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #484 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 22.6% nationally. That’s across 48,007 residents and 1,290 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 29.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 1 traffic.
What’s watching Botkins
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 Botkins — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Botkins (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Botkins
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 Botkins
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).