Flock & ALPR Cameras in Ottawa Hills, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 69 automated license plate readers in and around Ottawa Hills — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 71 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Ottawa Hills, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 5 of them sit inside Ottawa Hills itself.
The rest sit in Toledo (62), Bedford Township (1).
54 of them name an operator in the record: Toledo Police Department (27), University of Toledo Police Department (19), Ottawa Hills Local School District (3), Saint Ursula Academy (3), Saint Francis de Sales School (2). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
3 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Ottawa Hills in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 02:14 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Ottawa Hills
The readers mapped around Ottawa Hills break down as 69 Flock Safety, 2 Axis Communications. Named operators in the reports: Toledo Police Department, University of Toledo Police Department, Ottawa Hills Local School District, Saint Ursula Academy, Saint Francis de Sales School. The first camera here was reported in Oct 2023; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- West Central Avenue — 7 readers
- Dorr Street — 6 readers
- Toledo — 4 readers
- Secor Road — 4 readers
- Monroe Street — 4 readers
- West Bancroft Street — 4 readers
- Indian Road — 4 readers
- East Rocket Drive — 3 readers
- West Sylvania Avenue — 3 readers
- West Rocket Drive — 3 readers
- Sylvania Avenue Multi-use Trail — 3 readers
- Hill Avenue — 3 readers
+ 16 more streets and roads mapped around Ottawa Hills — all on the live map above.
Ottawa Hills in the Lucas County picture
Lucas County has 265 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #356 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 16.6% nationally. That’s across 428,748 residents and 1,531 road miles. By road density that is 0.17 cameras per road mile, in the top 1.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 71 traffic. Operators named on the record: Toledo Police Department (27), University of Toledo Police Department (19), Ottawa Hills Local School District (3).
Camera activity around Ottawa Hills, last 30 days
4 newly reported in our hourly change log for Ottawa Hills. Latest change logged Aug 30, 2026.
What’s watching Ottawa Hills
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 Ottawa Hills — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Ottawa Hills (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Ottawa Hills
What you can do in Ottawa Hills
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 Ottawa Hills
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).