Flock & ALPR Cameras in Elyria, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 42 automated license plate readers in and around Elyria — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 42 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Elyria, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 39 of them sit inside Elyria itself.
The rest sit in Carlisle Township (2), North Ridgeville (1).
5 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (5). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Elyria in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 12:27 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Elyria
The readers mapped around Elyria break down as 31 Flock Safety, 5 of unrecorded make, 5 Genetec. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- John F. Kennedy Memorial Parkway — 7 readers
- Lake Avenue — 3 readers
- Market Drive — 3 readers
- East 4th Street — 3 readers
- East Broad Street — 3 readers
- Fuller Road — 2 readers
- West River Road North — 2 readers
- East River Street — 2 readers
- Middle Avenue — 2 readers
- Park Avenue — 2 readers
- Yunker Court — 1 reader
- Lagrange Road — 1 reader
+ 11 more streets and roads mapped around Elyria — all on the live map above.
Elyria OH PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Elyria OH PD runs 21 cameras of its own, has logged 606 plate-database searches, has captured 297,235 vehicle records. Its network connects to 1,647 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Abbeville SC PD, Acworth GA PD, Ada County ID SO, Adairville KY PD, Adams County IL SO, Adams County WI SO, Adrian MI PD, Agawam MA PD.
Elyria in the Lorain County picture
Lorain County has 150 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #572 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 314,588 residents and 1,477 road miles. By road density that is 0.10 cameras per road mile, in the top 4.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 42 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (5).
What’s watching Elyria
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 Elyria — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Elyria (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Elyria
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Elyria, OH
- Norwalk man facing 2 felonies for allegedly damaging Flock camera in Elyria
What you can do in Elyria
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 Elyria
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).