Flock & ALPR Cameras in Forest, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 3 automated license plate readers in and around Forest — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 3 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Forest, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Forest itself.
The rest sit in Dunkirk (1), Salem Township (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Forest in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 19:53 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Forest
The readers mapped around Forest break down as 3 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2026; the most recent in May 2026.
- County Road 330 — 1 reader
- South Main Street — 1 reader
- SR 37;SR 53 — 1 reader
Forest in the Hardin County picture
Hardin County has 7 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,261 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 30,527 residents and 747 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 45.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 3 traffic.
What’s watching Forest
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 Forest — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Forest (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Forest
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 Forest
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).