Flock & ALPR Cameras in Canton, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 56 automated license plate readers in and around Canton — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 56 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Canton, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 52 of them sit inside Canton itself.
The rest sit in Perry Heights (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Stark County Sheriff (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
3 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 15 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
📷 33 new license plate readers just reported around Canton, OH. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #Canton
Where the cameras are in Canton
The readers mapped around Canton break down as 42 Flock Safety, 9 Axis Communications, 4 Genetec. Named operators in the reports: Stark County Sheriff. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- 12th Street Northwest — 5 readers
- Tuscarawas Street West — 4 readers
- 30th Street Northwest — 3 readers
- Shepler Church Avenue Southwest — 2 readers
- Middlebranch Avenue Northeast — 2 readers
- Mercy Drive Northwest — 2 readers
- Harrison Avenue Southwest — 2 readers
- 30th Street Northeast — 2 readers
- Fulton Road Northwest — 2 readers
- Maryland Avenue Southwest — 2 readers
- 15th Street Northeast — 2 readers
- 25th Street Northwest — 2 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Canton — all on the live map above.
Canton OH PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Canton OH PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 59 other agencies.
Canton in the Stark County picture
Stark County has 81 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,323 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 373,764 residents and 2,113 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 16.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 55 traffic. Operators named on the record: Stark County Sheriff (1).
Camera activity around Canton, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Canton. Latest change logged Aug 28, 2026.
What’s watching Canton
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 Canton — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Canton (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Canton
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Canton, OH
- 33 new license plate readers reported around Canton, OH
- 2 new license plate readers reported around North Canton, OH
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near North Canton, OH
What you can do in Canton
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 Canton
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).