Flock & ALPR Cameras in Plain City, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 5 automated license plate readers in and around Plain City — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 5 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Plain City, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 4 of them sit inside Plain City itself.
The rest sit in Darby Township (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Plain City in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 01:10 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Plain City
The readers mapped around Plain City break down as 5 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in May 2026.
- Jefferson Avenue — 1 reader
- Plain City-Delaware Road — 1 reader
- Dublin-Plain City Road — 1 reader
- SR 161 — 1 reader
- Plain City – Georgesville Road — 1 reader
Plain City OH PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Plain City OH PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 44 other agencies.
Plain City in the Madison County picture
Madison County has 29 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #308 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 14.4% nationally. That’s across 44,126 residents and 807 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 17.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 3 traffic.
What’s watching Plain City
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 Plain City — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Plain City (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Plain City
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 Plain City
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).