Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lakewood, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 42 automated license plate readers in and around Lakewood — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 42 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Lakewood, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 21 of them sit inside Lakewood itself.
The rest sit in Cleveland (21).
3 of them name an operator in the record: The Home Depot (3). 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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- Oct 2 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 16 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Lakewood
The readers mapped around Lakewood break down as 35 Flock Safety, 4 Leonardo, 1 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Detroit Avenue — 5 readers
- Lake Avenue — 5 readers
- West 117th Street — 5 readers
- West 155th Street — 4 readers
- Clifton Boulevard — 3 readers
- Madison Avenue — 3 readers
- Berea Road — 2 readers
- Edgewater Drive — 2 readers
- Carbon Street — 1 reader
- Lakewood Heights Boulevard — 1 reader
- Larchmont Avenue — 1 reader
- Franklin Boulevard — 1 reader
+ 7 more streets and roads mapped around Lakewood — all on the live map above.
Lakewood OH PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Lakewood OH PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 82 other agencies.
Lakewood 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 36 traffic, 4 residential. Operators named on the record: The Home Depot (3).
Camera activity around Lakewood, last 30 days
9 newly reported in our hourly change log for Lakewood. Latest change logged Sep 4, 2026.
What’s watching Lakewood
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 Lakewood — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Lakewood (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Lakewood
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Lakewood, OH
- 4 new license plate readers reported around Lakewood, OH
- New chapter on the network: DeFlock Lakewood (Lakewood, Ohio)
What you can do in Lakewood
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 Lakewood
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).