Flock & ALPR Cameras in Independence, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 27 automated license plate readers in and around Independence — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 27 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Independence, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 18 of them sit inside Independence itself.
The rest sit in Brecksville (6), Broadview Heights (1), Parma (1), Seven Hills (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Independence in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:25 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Independence
The readers mapped around Independence break down as 23 Flock Safety, 2 Motorola Solutions, 1 Leonardo. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Brecksville Road — 6 readers
- East Pleasant Valley Road — 4 readers
- Wallings Road — 3 readers
- Rockside Road — 3 readers
- Daventree Drive — 2 readers
- Broadview Road — 1 reader
- East Wallings Road — 1 reader
- East Sprague Road — 1 reader
- Brookside Road — 1 reader
- Cascade Creek Lane — 1 reader
- Hillside Road — 1 reader
- Stone Road — 1 reader
+ 2 more streets and roads mapped around Independence — all on the live map above.
Independence OH PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Independence OH PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 81 other agencies.
Independence 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 27 traffic.
Camera activity around Independence, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Independence. Latest change logged Aug 23, 2026.
What’s watching Independence
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 Independence — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Independence (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Independence
What you can do in Independence
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 Independence
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).