Flock & ALPR Cameras in Ontario, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 34 automated license plate readers in and around Ontario — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 34 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Ontario, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 32 of them sit inside Ontario itself.
The rest sit in Mansfield (2).
6 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (6). 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 7 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Ontario
The readers mapped around Ontario break down as 34 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- North Lexington-Springmill Road — 13 readers
- Park Avenue West — 6 readers
- West 4th Street — 4 readers
- Walker Lake Road — 3 readers
- North Rock Road — 2 readers
- West Longview Avenue — 1 reader
- South Lexington-Springmill Road — 1 reader
- SR 309 — 1 reader
- Shelby-Ontario Road — 1 reader
- August Drive — 1 reader
- Briggs Drive — 1 reader
Ontario OH PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Ontario OH PD has captured 205,535 vehicle records. Its network connects to 737 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: 18th Judicial District DA's Office- LA PD, 18th Judicial District Drug Task Force - TN PD, Aberdeen WA PD, Abilene KS PD, Abilene TX PD, Abington Township PA PD, Accomack County VA SO, Acushnet MA PD.
Ontario in the Richland County picture
Richland County has 70 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #426 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 19.9% nationally. That’s across 125,138 residents and 2,106 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 19% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 30 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (6).
Camera activity around Ontario, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Ontario. Latest change logged Sep 7, 2026.
What’s watching Ontario
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 Ontario — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Ontario (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Ontario
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Ontario, OH
- Toronto police admit using secretive facial recognition technology Clearview AI
What you can do in Ontario
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 Ontario
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).