Flock & ALPR Cameras in Gahanna, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 59 automated license plate readers in and around Gahanna — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 59 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Gahanna, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 31 of them sit inside Gahanna itself.
The rest sit in Columbus (21), Jefferson Township (7).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Gahanna (2). 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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- Oct 5 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Oct 4 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 8 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Gahanna
The readers mapped around Gahanna break down as 61 Flock Safety, 1 Rekor. Named operators in the reports: Gahanna. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Hamilton Road — 8 readers
- Swanson Avenue — 4 readers
- East Johnstown Road — 4 readers
- Clark State Road — 3 readers
- Morse Road — 3 readers
- Columbus — 3 readers
- Goshen Lane — 3 readers
- Bentridge Lane — 2 readers
- Cherry Bottom Road — 2 readers
- Sawyer Road — 2 readers
- Jackson Hole Drive — 2 readers
- Science Boulevard — 2 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Gahanna — all on the live map above.
Gahanna OH PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Gahanna OH PD runs 23 cameras of its own, has logged 110 plate-database searches, has captured 495,129 vehicle records. Its network connects to 97 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Gahanna in the Franklin County picture
Franklin County has 580 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #641 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,321,635 residents and 3,317 road miles. By road density that is 0.17 cameras per road mile, in the top 1.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 59 traffic. Operators named on the record: Gahanna (2).
Camera activity around Gahanna, last 30 days
10 newly reported in our hourly change log for Gahanna. Latest change logged Sep 8, 2026.
What’s watching Gahanna
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 Gahanna — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Gahanna (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Gahanna
- 5 license plate readers reported removed near Gahanna, OH
- Gahanna sees multiple acts of vandalism against Flock cameras amid controversy
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Gahanna, OH
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Gahanna, OH
What you can do in Gahanna
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 Gahanna
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).