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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Pickerington, Ohio

Volunteers have reported 19 automated license plate readers in and around Pickerington — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 19 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Pickerington, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 15 of them sit inside Pickerington itself.

The rest sit in Violet Township (3), Columbus (1).

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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Reported cameras nearby
#114
of 556 Ohio cities tracked
0.3%
of Ohio’s reported cameras
Live camera map 19 reported cameras around Pickerington, Ohio
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Pickerington
+0 this week +1 last 30 days
  • Sep 18 Flock Safety camera newly reported

Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.

Where the cameras are in Pickerington

The readers mapped around Pickerington break down as 18 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Feb 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.

  • Hill Road North — 5 readers
  • Refugee Road — 4 readers
  • Achievement Way — 2 readers
  • Diley Road — 2 readers
  • Winding Path Drive — 1 reader
  • Long Road — 1 reader
  • Water Mill Drive — 1 reader
  • Hill Road South — 1 reader
  • Opportunity Way — 1 reader

Pickerington OH PD and the sharing network

Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Pickerington OH PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 37 other agencies.

Pickerington in the Fairfield County picture

Fairfield County has 62 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #773 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 161,289 residents and 1,338 road miles. By road density that is 0.05 cameras per road mile, in the top 13.1% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 17 traffic.

Camera activity around Pickerington, last 30 days

1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Pickerington. Latest change logged Sep 4, 2026.

What’s watching Pickerington

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 Pickerington — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Pickerington (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

What you can do in Pickerington

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.

Cameras near Pickerington

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).