Flock & ALPR Cameras in Cleveland, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 21 automated license plate readers in and around Cleveland — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Oct 5 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Oct 4 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Cleveland
The readers mapped around Cleveland break down as 17 Flock Safety, 1 Motorola Solutions, 1 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: City of Cleveland Police. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Prospect Avenue East — 2 readers
- West 28th Street — 2 readers
- East 30th Street — 2 readers
- Carter Road — 2 readers
- Lakeside Avenue East — 2 readers
- Chester Avenue — 2 readers
- Euclid Avenue — 1 reader
- Vestry Avenue — 1 reader
- Hamilton Avenue — 1 reader
- Jefferson Avenue — 1 reader
- Detroit Avenue — 1 reader
- Vermont Avenue — 1 reader
+ 1 more streets and roads mapped around Cleveland — all on the live map above.
Cleveland in the Cuyahoga County picture
Cuyahoga County has 853 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #275 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 12.8% nationally. That’s across 1,249,418 residents and 2,760 road miles. By road density that is 0.31 cameras per road mile, in the top 0.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 16 traffic, 2 public, 1 street. Operators named on the record: City of Cleveland Police (2).
What’s watching Cleveland
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 Cleveland — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Cleveland (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Cleveland
- Cleveland Police Drone Policy Bans What Ohio's New Law Still Allows
- A felony for police abusing Flock cameras? An Ohio crackdown is long overdue
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Cleveland, OH
- Ohio audit flags unusual police database searches
What you can do in Cleveland
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 Cleveland
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).