Flock & ALPR Cameras in Swanton, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 3 automated license plate readers in and around Swanton — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 3 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Swanton, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Swanton itself.
The rest sit in Amboy Township (1), Swan Creek Township (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Swanton in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 15, 14:02 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Swanton
The readers mapped around Swanton break down as 2 Flock Safety, 1 Axis Communications. The first camera here was reported in May 2026; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Airport Highway — 1 reader
- Wabash Cannonball Trail (North Fork) — 1 reader
- US 20;SR 120 — 1 reader
Swanton OH PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Swanton OH PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 40 other agencies.
Swanton in the Fulton County picture
Fulton County has 12 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,072 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 42,434 residents and 929 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 38.1% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 3 traffic.
Camera activity around Swanton, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Swanton. Latest change logged Aug 20, 2026.
What’s watching Swanton
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 Swanton — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Swanton (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Swanton
- In the minutes: Swanton Minutes, Flock Camera (Oct 9)
- In the minutes: Swanton Draft Minutes, Flock Camera (Sep 9)
What you can do in Swanton
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 Swanton
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).