Flock & ALPR Cameras in Coldwater, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Coldwater — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 2 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Coldwater, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Coldwater itself.
The rest sit in Butler Township (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Coldwater in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 20:46 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Coldwater
The readers mapped around Coldwater break down as 2 Flock Safety. Every report here dates to Jan 2026.
- SR 118 — 2 readers
Coldwater in the Mercer County picture
Mercer County has 10 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,235 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 42,438 residents and 966 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 42.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic.
What’s watching Coldwater
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 Coldwater — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Coldwater (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Coldwater
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 Coldwater
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).