Flock & ALPR Cameras in Fairlawn, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 18 automated license plate readers in and around Fairlawn — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 18 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Fairlawn, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 6 of them sit inside Fairlawn itself.
The rest sit in Akron (10), Bath Township (2).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (1). 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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- Sep 25 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 25 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 25 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Fairlawn
The readers mapped around Fairlawn break down as 10 Flock Safety, 3 of unrecorded make, 2 Axis Communications. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- West Market Street — 4 readers
- Merriman Road — 3 readers
- Smith Road — 2 readers
- North Portage Path — 1 reader
- Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail — 1 reader
- Yellow Creek Road — 1 reader
- West Bath Road — 1 reader
- Ghent Road — 1 reader
- Parkway Jogging Trail — 1 reader
Fairlawn OH PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Fairlawn OH PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 129 other agencies.
Fairlawn in the Summit County picture
Summit County has 358 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #293 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 13.7% nationally. That’s across 538,087 residents and 2,102 road miles. By road density that is 0.17 cameras per road mile, in the top 2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 14 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (1).
Camera activity around Fairlawn, last 30 days
2 removed in our hourly change log for Fairlawn. Latest change logged Aug 20, 2026.
What’s watching Fairlawn
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 Fairlawn — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Fairlawn (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Fairlawn
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Fairlawn, OH
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near Fairlawn, OH
What you can do in Fairlawn
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 Fairlawn
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).