Flock & ALPR Cameras in Sylvania, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 31 automated license plate readers in and around Sylvania — 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 Sylvania, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 16 of them sit inside Sylvania itself.
The rest sit in Sylvania Township (1), Toledo (1).
19 of them name an operator in the record: Sylvania Police Department (16), Jewish Federation of Greater Toledo (2), Toledo Police Department (1). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
14 cameras have no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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- Sep 17 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Sylvania
The readers mapped around Sylvania break down as 31 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Sylvania Police Department, Jewish Federation of Greater Toledo, Toledo Police Department. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Sylvania Avenue — 6 readers
- Monroe Street — 4 readers
- West Alexis Road — 3 readers
- Sylvania-Metamora Road — 2 readers
- North Centennial Road — 2 readers
- Port Sylvania Drive — 2 readers
- Percentum Road — 2 readers
- River Trail — 1 reader
- North King Road — 1 reader
- North McCord Road — 1 reader
- North Holland-Sylvania Road — 1 reader
- Brint Road — 1 reader
+ 5 more streets and roads mapped around Sylvania — all on the live map above.
Sylvania OH PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Sylvania OH PD runs 17 cameras of its own, has logged 38 plate-database searches, has captured 250,200 vehicle records. Its network connects to 1,942 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: 18th Judicial District Drug Task Force - TN PD, 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.
Sylvania in the Lucas County picture
Lucas County has 265 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #356 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 16.6% nationally. That’s across 428,748 residents and 1,531 road miles. By road density that is 0.17 cameras per road mile, in the top 1.9% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 30 traffic. Operators named on the record: Sylvania Police Department (16), Jewish Federation of Greater Toledo (2), Toledo Police Department (1).
Camera activity around Sylvania, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Sylvania. Latest change logged Aug 19, 2026.
What’s watching Sylvania
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 Sylvania — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Sylvania (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Sylvania
What you can do in Sylvania
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 Sylvania
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).