Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lexington, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 8 automated license plate readers in and around Lexington — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 8 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Lexington, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 4 of them sit inside Lexington itself.
The rest sit in Washington Township (2), Mansfield (1), Troy Township (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (1). 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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No new reports near Lexington in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 16:20 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Lexington
The readers mapped around Lexington break down as 8 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- SR 13 — 2 readers
- Delaware Avenue — 1 reader
- Lexington Avenue — 1 reader
- East Main Street — 1 reader
- Sherwood Drive — 1 reader
- State Route 546 — 1 reader
- West Main Street — 1 reader
Lexington OH PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Lexington OH PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 39 other agencies.
Lexington in the Richland County picture
Richland County has 70 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #426 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 19.9% nationally. That’s across 125,138 residents and 2,106 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 19% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 8 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (1).
Camera activity around Lexington, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Lexington. Latest change logged Aug 24, 2026.
What’s watching Lexington
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 Lexington — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Lexington (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Lexington
- Police: Lexington flock cameras help find missing person from Ohio
- Lexington flock cameras locate missing person from Ohio
- 2 new license plate readers reported around New Lexington, OH
What you can do in Lexington
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 Lexington
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).