Flock & ALPR Cameras in Port Clinton, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 17 automated license plate readers in and around Port Clinton — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 18 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Port Clinton, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 7 of them sit inside Port Clinton itself.
The rest sit in Portage Township (5), Danbury (2), Bay Township (1), Put-in-Bay Township (1).
2 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 Port Clinton in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 12:27 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Port Clinton
The readers mapped around Port Clinton break down as 18 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2024; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- SR 2;SR 269 — 2 readers
- US 6 — 2 readers
- Fulton Street — 2 readers
- West Lakeshore Drive — 2 readers
- East Harbor Road — 2 readers
- East State Road — 2 readers
- Southeast Catawba Road — 1 reader
- West Fremont Road — 1 reader
- East Perry Street — 1 reader
- Northeast Catawba Road — 1 reader
- South Limestahl Road — 1 reader
- Langram Road — 1 reader
Port Clinton OH PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Port Clinton OH PD runs 11 cameras of its own, has logged 95 plate-database searches, has captured 58,954 vehicle records. Its network connects to 2,026 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Abbotsford WI PD, Abington Township PA PD, Acworth GA PD, Ada County ID SO, Adairville KY PD, Adams County IL SO, Adams County IN SO, Adams County WI SO.
Port Clinton in the Ottawa County picture
Ottawa County has 28 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #262 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 12.2% nationally. That’s across 40,161 residents and 1,114 road miles. By road density that is 0.03 cameras per road mile, in the top 24.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 15 traffic.
Camera activity around Port Clinton, last 30 days
1 removed in our hourly change log for Port Clinton. Latest change logged Aug 18, 2026.
What’s watching Port Clinton
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 Port Clinton — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Port Clinton (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Port Clinton
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Port Clinton, OH
- Special Flock cameras keep eye on crime around Port Clinton
What you can do in Port Clinton
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 Port Clinton
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).