Flock & ALPR Cameras in Lima, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 27 automated license plate readers in and around Lima — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 27 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Lima, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 19 of them sit inside Lima itself.
The rest sit in Perry Township (6), Bath Township (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 7 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Oct 7 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
- Oct 7 Leonardo camera newly reported
- Oct 7 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
📷 6 new license plate readers just reported around Lima, OH. Newly mapped by volunteers — see what's watching. #ALPR #Surveillance #Lima
Where the cameras are in Lima
The readers mapped around Lima break down as 20 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Bellefontaine Avenue — 3 readers
- North Jameson Avenue — 2 readers
- East Chapman Road — 2 readers
- Bath Township — 2 readers
- West Market Street — 2 readers
- Allentown Road — 1 reader
- South Cable Road — 1 reader
- East Bluelick Road — 1 reader
- East Kibby Street — 1 reader
- East Elm Street — 1 reader
- East North Street — 1 reader
- North West Street — 1 reader
+ 2 more streets and roads mapped around Lima — all on the live map above.
Lima OH PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Lima OH PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 41 other agencies.
Lima in the Allen County picture
Allen County has 20 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,389 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 101,685 residents and 1,145 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 31.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 20 traffic.
Camera activity around Lima, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Lima. Latest change logged Aug 16, 2026.
What’s watching Lima
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 Lima — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Lima (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Lima
- 6 new license plate readers reported around Lima, OH
- Lima , Ohio , PD to Install License Plate Camera Network
- Ohio AG supports criminalizing Flock camera misuse
What you can do in Lima
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 Lima
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).