Flock & ALPR Cameras in Drexel, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 10 automated license plate readers in and around Drexel — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 10 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Drexel, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Drexel itself.
The rest sit in Dayton (5), Trotwood (3), Jefferson Township (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Drexel in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:27 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Drexel
The readers mapped around Drexel break down as 10 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- C.J Mclin Jr. Expressway — 2 readers
- West 3rd Street — 2 readers
- North Gettysburg Avenue — 1 reader
- North Union Road — 1 reader
- Liscum Drive — 1 reader
- Abbey Avenue — 1 reader
- Germantown Pike — 1 reader
- Olive Road — 1 reader
Drexel in the Montgomery County picture
Montgomery County has 299 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #427 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 19.9% nationally. That’s across 535,528 residents and 2,247 road miles. By road density that is 0.13 cameras per road mile, in the top 3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 9 traffic.
What’s watching Drexel
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 Drexel — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Drexel (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Drexel
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 Drexel
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).