Flock & ALPR Cameras in Mentor-on-the-Lake, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 11 automated license plate readers in and around Mentor-on-the-Lake — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 11 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Mentor-on-the-Lake, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 3 of them sit inside Mentor-on-the-Lake itself.
The rest sit in Mentor (5), Willoughby (2), Eastlake (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Oct 6 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Oct 6 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Mentor-on-the-Lake
The readers mapped around Mentor-on-the-Lake break down as 9 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in May 2026.
- Lake Shore Boulevard — 4 readers
- Andrews Road — 2 readers
- Tyler Boulevard — 1 reader
- Lost Nation Road — 1 reader
- North Lane — 1 reader
Mentor on the Lake OH PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Mentor on the Lake OH PD runs 3 cameras of its own, has logged 28 plate-database searches, has captured 56,336 vehicle records. Its network connects to 49 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Mentor-on-the-Lake in the Lake County picture
Lake County has 120 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #488 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 22.8% nationally. That’s across 232,101 residents and 1,036 road miles. By road density that is 0.12 cameras per road mile, in the top 3.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 4 traffic, 1 town.
Camera activity around Mentor-on-the-Lake, last 30 days
1 removed in our hourly change log for Mentor-on-the-Lake. Latest change logged Aug 14, 2026.
What’s watching Mentor-on-the-Lake
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 Mentor-on-the-Lake — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Mentor-on-the-Lake (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Mentor-on-the-Lake
What you can do in Mentor-on-the-Lake
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 Mentor-on-the-Lake
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).