Flock & ALPR Cameras in Hicksville, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around Hicksville — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 4 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Hicksville, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 3 of them sit inside Hicksville itself.
The rest sit in Hicksville Township (1).
2 of them name an operator in the record: Hicksville Police Department (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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No new reports near Hicksville in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:12 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Hicksville
The readers mapped around Hicksville break down as 4 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Hicksville Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Mar 2026.
- SR 2;SR 49 — 1 reader
- Hicksville — 1 reader
- Hicksville Township — 1 reader
- SR 2 — 1 reader
Hicksville in the Defiance County picture
Defiance County has 8 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,348 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 38,258 residents and 1,312 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 55.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic. Operators named on the record: Hicksville Police Department (2).
What’s watching Hicksville
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 Hicksville — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Hicksville (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Hicksville
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 Hicksville
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).