Flock & ALPR Cameras in Northfield, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 6 automated license plate readers in and around Northfield — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 10 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Northfield, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Northfield itself.
The rest sit in Sagamore Hills (3), Oakwood (2), Glenwillow (1), Macedonia (1), Sagamore Hills Township (1), Twinsburg (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Northfield in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 10:26 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Northfield
The readers mapped around Northfield break down as 6 Flock Safety, 4 of unrecorded make. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2022; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Northfield Road — 2 readers
- Ledge Road — 2 readers
- Eaton Ridge Drive — 1 reader
- Ravenna Road — 1 reader
- Broadway Avenue — 1 reader
- Valley View Road — 1 reader
- Pettibone Road — 1 reader
- Medusa Road — 1 reader
Northfield OH PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Northfield OH PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 49 other agencies.
Northfield in the Summit County picture
Summit County has 358 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #293 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 13.7% nationally. That’s across 538,087 residents and 2,102 road miles. By road density that is 0.17 cameras per road mile, in the top 2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 10 traffic.
Camera activity around Northfield, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Northfield. Latest change logged Aug 22, 2026.
What’s watching Northfield
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 Northfield — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Northfield (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Northfield
- Macedonia , Northfield first in Summit to install license plate reader
- Flock Systems installs automatic license plate readers in Macedonia , Northfield Village
What you can do in Northfield
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 Northfield
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).