Flock & ALPR Cameras in Oakwood, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 22 automated license plate readers in and around Oakwood — 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 Oakwood, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 6 of them sit inside Oakwood itself.
The rest sit in Dayton (14), Kettering (3).
5 of them name an operator in the record: Dayton, OH Police Dept (5). 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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- Sep 12 Axis Communications camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Oakwood
The readers mapped around Oakwood break down as 20 Flock Safety, 2 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Dayton, OH Police Dept. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Wilmington Avenue — 4 readers
- South Smithville Road — 3 readers
- Wayne Avenue — 3 readers
- Wyoming Street — 2 readers
- Patterson Road — 2 readers
- Far Hills Avenue — 2 readers
- West Thruston Boulevard — 1 reader
- Morningside Boulevard — 1 reader
- Watervliet Avenue — 1 reader
- Woodman Drive — 1 reader
- Oakwood Avenue — 1 reader
- Acorn Drive — 1 reader
OH - Oakwood PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, OH - Oakwood PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 84 other agencies.
Oakwood in the Montgomery County picture
Montgomery County has 299 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #427 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 19.9% nationally. That’s across 535,528 residents and 2,247 road miles. By road density that is 0.13 cameras per road mile, in the top 3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 14 traffic, 1 entrance, 1 street. Operators named on the record: Dayton, OH Police Dept (5).
Camera activity around Oakwood, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Oakwood. Latest change logged Aug 22, 2026.
What’s watching Oakwood
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 Oakwood — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Oakwood (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Oakwood
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 Oakwood
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).