Flock & ALPR Cameras in Painesville, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 42 automated license plate readers in and around Painesville — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 42 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Painesville, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 25 of them sit inside Painesville itself.
The rest sit in Concord Township (12), Painesville Township (4), Mentor (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: The Home Depot (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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- Oct 5 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Oct 5 Motorola Solutions camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Painesville
The readers mapped around Painesville break down as 26 Flock Safety, 9 Motorola Solutions, 2 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: The Home Depot. The first camera here was reported in Apr 2022; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Auburn Road — 4 readers
- Richmond Street — 4 readers
- State Route 44 — 2 readers
- Mentor Avenue — 2 readers
- South Drive — 2 readers
- Casement Avenue — 2 readers
- West Jackson Street — 2 readers
- Newell Street — 2 readers
- Grant Street — 2 readers
- Main Street — 2 readers
- Painesville Warren Road — 1 reader
- I 90 — 1 reader
+ 14 more streets and roads mapped around Painesville — all on the live map above.
OH - Painesville PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, OH - Painesville PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 44 other agencies.
Painesville in the Lake County picture
Lake County has 120 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #488 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 22.8% nationally. That’s across 232,101 residents and 1,036 road miles. By road density that is 0.12 cameras per road mile, in the top 3.6% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 37 traffic. Operators named on the record: The Home Depot (1).
Camera activity around Painesville, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Painesville. Latest change logged Aug 28, 2026.
What’s watching Painesville
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 Painesville — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Painesville (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Painesville
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Painesville, OH
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Painesville, OH
- 3 new license plate readers reported around Painesville, OH
- Painesville City Council to vote on installing Flock Safety license plate readers
What you can do in Painesville
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 Painesville
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).