Flock & ALPR Cameras in Mentor, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 23 automated license plate readers in and around Mentor — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 23 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Mentor, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 21 of them sit inside Mentor itself.
The rest sit in Concord Township (1), Kirtland Hills (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (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 Mentor in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 22:15 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Mentor
The readers mapped around Mentor break down as 22 Flock Safety, 1 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2022; the most recent in Apr 2026.
- Mentor Avenue — 8 readers
- Reynolds Road — 3 readers
- Center Street — 3 readers
- Tyler Boulevard — 2 readers
- Johnnycake Ridge Road — 2 readers
- I 90 — 1 reader
- State Route 44 — 1 reader
- Jackson Street — 1 reader
- Heisley Road — 1 reader
- Old Johnny Cake Road — 1 reader
Mentor OH PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Mentor OH PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 50 other agencies.
Mentor 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 13 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (1).
What’s watching Mentor
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 — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Mentor (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Mentor
- Alleged Mentor, Ohio, porch pirate caught by Ring, Flock cameras
- FLOCK cameras help nab porch pirate in Mentor
- Mentor Police using new license plate reader system to stop crime
- Mentor Police testing new license plate reader system to help officers fight and solve crimes
What you can do in Mentor
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
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).