Flock & ALPR Cameras in Kent, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 3 automated license plate readers in and around Kent — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Contract Rejected
Kent is on the record here. The Kent city council voted against a Flock contract due to concerns of potential abuse and discomfort with mass surveillance.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 3 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Kent, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Kent itself.
The rest sit in Stow (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Kent in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 12, 19:51 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Kent
The readers mapped around Kent break down as 3 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Kent Road — 1 reader
- Graham Road — 1 reader
- South Water Street — 1 reader
Kent OH PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Kent OH PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 22 other agencies.
Kent in the Portage County picture
Portage County has 44 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,103 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 161,421 residents and 1,450 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 21.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic.
Camera activity around Kent, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Kent. Latest change logged Sep 11, 2026.
What’s watching Kent
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 Kent — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Kent (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Kent
What you can do in Kent
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 Kent
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).