Flock & ALPR Cameras in Shaker Heights, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 18 automated license plate readers in and around Shaker Heights — 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 Shaker Heights, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 11 of them sit inside Shaker Heights itself.
The rest sit in Cleveland (6), Warrensville Heights (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Shaker Heights in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 9, 03:13 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Shaker Heights
The readers mapped around Shaker Heights break down as 8 of unrecorded make, 8 Flock Safety, 2 Leonardo. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2022; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Chagrin Boulevard — 6 readers
- Warrensville Center Road — 3 readers
- East 146th Street — 2 readers
- South Park Boulevard — 1 reader
- Van Aken Boulevard — 1 reader
- Shaker Boulevard — 1 reader
- Joann Drive — 1 reader
- East 147th Street — 1 reader
- Livingston Road — 1 reader
- Wickfield Avenue — 1 reader
Shaker Heights OH PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Shaker Heights OH PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 49 other agencies.
Shaker Heights in the Cuyahoga County picture
Cuyahoga County has 853 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #275 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 12.8% nationally. That’s across 1,249,418 residents and 2,760 road miles. By road density that is 0.31 cameras per road mile, in the top 0.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 17 traffic.
Camera activity around Shaker Heights, last 30 days
8 newly reported, 5 removed in our hourly change log for Shaker Heights. Latest change logged Aug 22, 2026.
What’s watching Shaker Heights
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 Shaker Heights — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Shaker Heights (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Shaker Heights
- Shaker Heights council hears cheers and jeers on Flock cameras in heated meeting
- 4 license plate readers reported removed near Shaker Heights, OH
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Shaker Heights, OH
- 5 new license plate readers reported around Shaker Heights, OH
What you can do in Shaker Heights
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 Shaker Heights
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).