Flock & ALPR Cameras in Chardon, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 15 automated license plate readers in and around Chardon — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 15 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Chardon, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 10 of them sit inside Chardon itself.
The rest sit in Hambden Township (2), Huntsburg Township (1), Montville Township (1).
4 of them name an operator in the record: The Home Depot (4). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 22 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Chardon
The readers mapped around Chardon break down as 14 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Center Street — 3 readers
- Meadowlands Drive — 3 readers
- North State Avenue — 1 reader
- Wilson Mills Road — 1 reader
- Grand Army of the Republic Highway — 1 reader
- South Street — 1 reader
- North Hambden Street — 1 reader
- Chardon Road — 1 reader
- State Route 44 — 1 reader
- Chardon-Windsor Road — 1 reader
Chardon OH PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Chardon OH PD runs 7 cameras of its own, has logged 39 plate-database searches, has captured 119,244 vehicle records. Its network connects to 308 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Akron OH PD, Alliance OH PD, Amberley Village OH PD, Amherst OH PD, Ashland County OH SO, Ashland OH PD, Ashtabula County OH SO, Ashtabula OH PD.
Chardon in the Geauga County picture
Geauga County has 53 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #435 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 20.3% nationally. That’s across 95,479 residents and 986 road miles. By road density that is 0.05 cameras per road mile, in the top 11.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 11 traffic, 1 street. Operators named on the record: The Home Depot (4).
What’s watching Chardon
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 Chardon — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Chardon (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Chardon
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 Chardon
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).