Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lake Darby, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 7 automated license plate readers in and around Lake Darby — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 7 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Lake Darby, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Lake Darby itself.
The rest sit in Jefferson Township (3), Prairie Township (2), Brown Township (1), Pleasant Township (1).
4 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (4). 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.
Need this city’s camera data? Custom extracts are free for researchers, journalists and advocates. Ask for it.
No new reports near Lake Darby in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Lake Darby
The readers mapped around Lake Darby break down as 4 of unrecorded make, 3 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2025; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- Hubbard Road — 2 readers
- Plain City – Georgesville Road — 2 readers
- National Pike — 1 reader
- Johnson Road — 1 reader
- Old Kropp Road — 1 reader
Lake Darby in the Franklin County picture
Franklin County has 580 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #641 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,321,635 residents and 3,317 road miles. By road density that is 0.17 cameras per road mile, in the top 1.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 6 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (4).
Camera activity around Lake Darby, last 30 days
1 removed in our hourly change log for Lake Darby. Latest change logged Sep 4, 2026.
What’s watching Lake Darby
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 Lake Darby — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Lake Darby (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Lake Darby
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 Lake Darby
← All Ohio cameras, counties & cities
Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).