Flock & ALPR Cameras in Johnstown, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 23 automated license plate readers in and around Johnstown — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 23 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Johnstown, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 6 of them sit inside Johnstown itself.
The rest sit in Jersey Township (8), Liberty Township (4), Monroe Township (3), Alexandria (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 28 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 20 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Johnstown
The readers mapped around Johnstown break down as 21 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Johnstown-Utica Road Northwest — 4 readers
- Green Chapel Road Northwest — 4 readers
- Northridge Road — 4 readers
- Johnstown-Alexandria Road — 3 readers
- Mink Street Northwest — 3 readers
- North County Line Road — 1 reader
- Beech Road Northwest — 1 reader
- South Main Street — 1 reader
Johnstown OH PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Johnstown OH PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 2 other agencies.
Johnstown in the Licking County picture
Licking County has 138 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #208 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 9.7% nationally. That’s across 180,311 residents and 2,737 road miles. By road density that is 0.05 cameras per road mile, in the top 12.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 20 traffic.
Camera activity around Johnstown, last 30 days
1 newly reported, 1 removed in our hourly change log for Johnstown. Latest change logged Aug 28, 2026.
What’s watching Johnstown
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 Johnstown — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Johnstown (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Johnstown
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 Johnstown
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).