Flock & ALPR Cameras in Mount Vernon, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 16 automated license plate readers in and around Mount Vernon — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 16 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Mount Vernon, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 13 of them sit inside Mount Vernon itself.
The rest sit in Clinton Township (3).
4 of them name an operator in the record: Mount Vernon OH PD (4). 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 Mount Vernon in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:26 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Mount Vernon
The readers mapped around Mount Vernon break down as 16 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Mount Vernon OH PD. The first camera here was reported in May 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Coshocton Road — 3 readers
- Yellow Jacket Drive — 2 readers
- West High Street — 1 reader
- North Sandusky Street — 1 reader
- Old Columbus Road — 1 reader
- South Division Street — 1 reader
- Martinsburg Road — 1 reader
- Newark Road — 1 reader
- Banning Road — 1 reader
- Beech Street — 1 reader
- North Main Street — 1 reader
- Lower Green Valley Road — 1 reader
+ 1 more streets and roads mapped around Mount Vernon — all on the live map above.
Mount Vernon OH PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Mount Vernon OH PD runs 8 cameras of its own, has logged 53 plate-database searches, has captured 133,157 vehicle records. Its network connects to 87 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Mount Vernon in the Knox County picture
Knox County has 14 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,297 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 62,888 residents and 2,205 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 55% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 5 traffic, 4 street, 1 parking. Operators named on the record: Mount Vernon OH PD (4).
What’s watching Mount Vernon
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 Mount Vernon — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Mount Vernon (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Mount Vernon
- On the agenda: Mount Vernon City Council Meeting — ALPR (Sep 28)
- On the agenda: Mount Vernon City Council Meeting — Flock Camera (Sep 14)
What you can do in Mount Vernon
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 Mount Vernon
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).