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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Franklin, Ohio

Volunteers have reported 19 automated license plate readers in and around Franklin — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 19 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Franklin, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 14 of them sit inside Franklin itself.

The rest sit in Middletown (3), Franklin Township (2).

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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19
Reported cameras nearby
#121
of 556 Ohio cities tracked
0.3%
of Ohio’s reported cameras
Live camera map 19 reported cameras around Franklin, Ohio
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Franklin

No new reports near Franklin in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 10:26 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Franklin

The readers mapped around Franklin break down as 19 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.

  • West Lower Springboro Road — 2 readers
  • East 2nd Street — 2 readers
  • Franklin Lebanon Road — 2 readers
  • North Verity Parkway — 2 readers
  • Franklin-Trenton Road — 2 readers
  • Claude-Thomas Road — 1 reader
  • Manchester Road — 1 reader
  • South Main Street — 1 reader
  • Middletown Pike — 1 reader
  • North Main Street — 1 reader
  • Riley Boulevard — 1 reader
  • Silas Bryant Road — 1 reader

+ 2 more streets and roads mapped around Franklin — all on the live map above.

Franklin OH PD and the sharing network

Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Franklin OH PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 19 other agencies.

Franklin in the Warren County picture

Warren County has 167 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #276 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 12.9% nationally. That’s across 246,364 residents and 1,510 road miles. By road density that is 0.11 cameras per road mile, in the top 4.1% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 19 traffic.

Camera activity around Franklin, last 30 days

2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Franklin. Latest change logged Sep 4, 2026.

What’s watching Franklin

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 Franklin — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Franklin (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

The latest around Franklin

What you can do in Franklin

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.

Cameras near Franklin

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).