Flock & ALPR Cameras in Cincinnati, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around Cincinnati — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Sep 28, 2026 On the agenda: Cincinnati Budget, Finance & Governance Committee — surveillance camera (Sep 28)
- Sep 21, 2026 On the agenda: Cincinnati meeting — Automated License Plate (Sep 21)
- Sep 10, 2026 On the agenda: Cincinnati Cincinnati City Council — license plate reader (Sep 10)
- Sep 8, 2026 On the agenda: Cincinnati Budget, Finance & Governance Committee — license plate reader (Sep 8)
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- Sep 26 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 26 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 20 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Cincinnati
The readers mapped around Cincinnati break down as 3 Flock Safety, 2 Motorola Solutions, 2 Axon Enterprise. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Findlay Street — 2 readers
- Queen City Avenue — 2 readers
- Central Avenue — 1 reader
- Crow Alley — 1 reader
- Westwood Northern Boulevard — 1 reader
- East McMicken Avenue — 1 reader
- Lang Street — 1 reader
Cincinnati OH PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Cincinnati OH PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 32 other agencies.
Cincinnati in the Hamilton County picture
Hamilton County has 514 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #353 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 16.5% nationally. That’s across 827,878 residents and 2,238 road miles. By road density that is 0.23 cameras per road mile, in the top 0.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 9 traffic.
What’s watching Cincinnati
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 Cincinnati — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Cincinnati (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Cincinnati
- On the agenda: Cincinnati Budget, Finance & Governance Committee — surveillance camera (Sep 28)
- Flock-less Cincinnati looks to shine light on surveillance
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Cincinnati, OH
- On the agenda: Cincinnati meeting — Automated License Plate (Sep 21)
What you can do in Cincinnati
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 Cincinnati
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).