Flock & ALPR Cameras in Norwood, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 17 automated license plate readers in and around Norwood — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 17 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Norwood, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 16 of them sit inside Norwood itself.
The rest sit in Cincinnati (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Norwood PD (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 Norwood in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:26 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Norwood
The readers mapped around Norwood break down as 13 Flock Safety, 4 Neology, Inc.. Named operators in the reports: Norwood PD. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Montgomery Road — 5 readers
- Norwood Lateral Expressway — 2 readers
- Arbor Place — 2 readers
- Northeast Expressway — 1 reader
- Ross Avenue — 1 reader
- Walsh Road — 1 reader
- Sherman Avenue — 1 reader
- Edwards Road — 1 reader
- Norwood — 1 reader
- Madison Road — 1 reader
- Wesley Avenue — 1 reader
Norwood OH PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Norwood OH PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 144 other agencies.
Norwood in the Hamilton County picture
Hamilton County has 514 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #353 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 16.5% nationally. That’s across 827,878 residents and 2,238 road miles. By road density that is 0.23 cameras per road mile, in the top 0.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 16 traffic. Operators named on the record: Norwood PD (1).
Camera activity around Norwood, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Norwood. Latest change logged Aug 28, 2026.
What’s watching Norwood
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 Norwood — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Norwood (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Norwood
- On the agenda: Norwood Law, Ordinance, Environment, & Public Safety Committee — Flock Camera (Sep 16)
- In the minutes: Norwood City Council Regular Meeting, ALPR (Sep 8)
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Norwood, OH
What you can do in Norwood
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 Norwood
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).