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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Bowling Green, Ohio

Volunteers have reported 25 automated license plate readers in and around Bowling Green — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

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25
Reported cameras nearby
#73
of 556 Ohio cities tracked
0.4%
of Ohio’s reported cameras
Live camera map 25 reported cameras around Bowling Green, Ohio
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Bowling Green

No new reports near Bowling Green in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 12:29 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Bowling Green

The readers mapped around Bowling Green break down as 11 Axis Communications, 9 Rekor, 5 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2026; the most recent in Jul 2026.

  • East Wooster Street — 6 readers
  • East Poe Road — 3 readers
  • West Wooster Street — 3 readers
  • North Mercer Road — 2 readers
  • West Newton Road — 2 readers
  • East Merry Avenue — 1 reader
  • Ridge Street — 1 reader
  • North Main Street — 1 reader
  • Palmer Avenue — 1 reader
  • Napoleon Road — 1 reader
  • South Dixie Highway — 1 reader
  • West Gypsy Lane Road — 1 reader

+ 2 more streets and roads mapped around Bowling Green — all on the live map above.

Bowling Green OH PD and the sharing network

Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Bowling Green OH PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 83 other agencies.

Bowling Green in the Wood County picture

Wood County has 48 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #841 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 131,795 residents and 1,853 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 23.9% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 25 traffic.

What’s watching Bowling Green

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 Bowling Green — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Bowling Green (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

The latest around Bowling Green

What you can do in Bowling Green

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.

Cameras near Bowling Green

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).