Flock & ALPR Cameras in Obetz, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 33 automated license plate readers in and around Obetz — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 33 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Obetz, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 12 of them sit inside Obetz itself.
The rest sit in Columbus (9), Hamilton Township (7), Groveport (3), Lockbourne (1), Madison Township (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 12 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 12 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Obetz
The readers mapped around Obetz break down as 31 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Alum Creek Drive — 7 readers
- Lockbourne Road — 4 readers
- Rathmell Road — 3 readers
- Rohr Road — 2 readers
- Great Southern Boulevard — 2 readers
- Bixby Road — 1 reader
- Groveport Road — 1 reader
- Obetz — 1 reader
- Butler Farms Boulevard — 1 reader
- London - Groveport Road — 1 reader
- South High Street — 1 reader
- Commerce St. — 1 reader
+ 6 more streets and roads mapped around Obetz — all on the live map above.
Obetz OH PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Obetz OH PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 85 other agencies.
Obetz in the Franklin County picture
Franklin County has 580 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #641 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,321,635 residents and 3,317 road miles. By road density that is 0.17 cameras per road mile, in the top 1.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 26 traffic.
What’s watching Obetz
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 Obetz — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Obetz (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Obetz
What you can do in Obetz
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 Obetz
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).