Flock & ALPR Cameras in North Canton, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 50 automated license plate readers in and around North Canton — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 50 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of North Canton, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 7 of them sit inside North Canton itself.
The rest sit in Jackson Township (34), Canton (4), Plain Township (1).
9 of them name an operator in the record: North Canton Police Department (6), Flock Safety (1), Jackson Township Police (1), The Home Depot (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
4 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 25 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in North Canton
The readers mapped around North Canton break down as 42 Flock Safety, 5 Genetec, 1 Vue Robotics. Named operators in the reports: North Canton Police Department, Flock Safety, Jackson Township Police. The first camera here was reported in May 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Everhard Road Northwest — 6 readers
- Dressler Road Northwest — 6 readers
- Portage Street Northwest — 6 readers
- Belden Village Street Northwest — 3 readers
- I 77 — 3 readers
- Mega Street Northwest — 2 readers
- Strip Avenue Northwest — 2 readers
- East Maple Street — 2 readers
- South Main Street — 2 readers
- Fulton Road Northwest — 2 readers
- Applegrove Street Northwest — 2 readers
- South Boulevard Northwest — 1 reader
+ 13 more streets and roads mapped around North Canton — all on the live map above.
North Canton OH PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, North Canton OH PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 40 other agencies.
North Canton in the Stark County picture
Stark County has 81 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,323 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 373,764 residents and 2,113 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 16.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 42 traffic, 3 entrance, 2 street. Operators named on the record: North Canton Police Department (7), Flock Safety (1), Jackson Township Police (1).
Camera activity around North Canton, last 30 days
5 newly reported, 3 removed in our hourly change log for North Canton. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.
What’s watching North Canton
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 North Canton — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to North Canton (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around North Canton
- 2 new license plate readers reported around North Canton, OH
- 2 license plate readers reported removed near North Canton, OH
- 2 new license plate readers reported around North Canton, OH
- 2 new license plate readers reported around North Canton, OH
What you can do in North Canton
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.
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Cameras near North Canton
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).