Flock & ALPR Cameras in Garfield Heights, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 38 automated license plate readers in and around Garfield Heights — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 38 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Garfield Heights, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 26 of them sit inside Garfield Heights itself.
The rest sit in Cleveland (5), Independence (4), Cuyahoga Heights (3).
5 of them name an operator in the record: Cuyahoga Heights Police Department (3), Flock Safety (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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- Sep 30 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Garfield Heights
The readers mapped around Garfield Heights break down as 35 Flock Safety, 2 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Cuyahoga Heights Police Department, Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2022; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Granger Road — 7 readers
- Turney Road — 4 readers
- Transportation Boulevard — 2 readers
- Garfield Boulevard — 2 readers
- McCracken Road — 2 readers
- Garfield Parkway — 2 readers
- Jeffries Avenue — 2 readers
- Ohio & Erie Canal Reservation All Purpose Trail — 1 reader
- East 71st Street — 1 reader
- Sladden Avenue — 1 reader
- East 98th Street — 1 reader
- Cuyahoga Heights — 1 reader
+ 11 more streets and roads mapped around Garfield Heights — all on the live map above.
Garfield Heights OH PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Garfield Heights OH PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 82 other agencies.
Garfield Heights in the Cuyahoga County picture
Cuyahoga County has 853 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #275 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 12.8% nationally. That’s across 1,249,418 residents and 2,760 road miles. By road density that is 0.31 cameras per road mile, in the top 0.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 37 traffic. Operators named on the record: Cuyahoga Heights Police Department (3), Flock Safety (2).
Camera activity around Garfield Heights, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Garfield Heights. Latest change logged Aug 25, 2026.
What’s watching Garfield Heights
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 Garfield Heights — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Garfield Heights (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Garfield Heights
- 'A huge asset for us': Garfield Heights police using drone as first responder
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Garfield Heights, OH
What you can do in Garfield Heights
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 Garfield Heights
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).