Flock & ALPR Cameras in Powell, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 32 automated license plate readers in and around Powell — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 32 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Powell, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 11 of them sit inside Powell itself.
The rest sit in Liberty Township (15), Concord Township (3), Columbus (2), Dublin (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Powell in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 15:25 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Powell
The readers mapped around Powell break down as 31 Flock Safety, 1 Genetec. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Home Road — 7 readers
- Sawmill Parkway — 7 readers
- Seldom Seen Road — 2 readers
- West Powell Road — 2 readers
- Olentangy River Road — 2 readers
- Olentangy Meadows Drive — 2 readers
- East Olentangy Street — 1 reader
- Liberty Lane — 1 reader
- West Olentangy Street — 1 reader
- Fairway Drive — 1 reader
- Wellington Boulevard — 1 reader
- Glick Road — 1 reader
+ 4 more streets and roads mapped around Powell — all on the live map above.
Powell OH PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Powell OH PD runs 14 cameras of its own, has logged 150 plate-database searches, has captured 290,310 vehicle records. Its network connects to 131 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Powell in the Delaware County picture
Delaware County has 147 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #295 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 13.8% nationally. That’s across 221,160 residents and 1,615 road miles. By road density that is 0.09 cameras per road mile, in the top 5.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 17 traffic, 1 entrance, 1 public.
Camera activity around Powell, last 30 days
3 newly reported in our hourly change log for Powell. Latest change logged Sep 1, 2026.
What’s watching Powell
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 Powell — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Powell (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Powell
What you can do in Powell
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.
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Cameras near Powell
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).