Flock & ALPR Cameras in Toledo, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 79 automated license plate readers in and around Toledo — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Oct 2 Flock Safety camera newly reported
- Sep 13 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Toledo
The readers mapped around Toledo break down as 78 Flock Safety, 8 Genetec, 1 Rekor. Named operators in the reports: Toledo Police Department, Meijer, ProMedica, Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- West Alexis Road — 9 readers
- East Alexis Road — 8 readers
- Stickney Avenue — 6 readers
- West Central Avenue — 4 readers
- North Detroit Avenue — 4 readers
- Dorr Street — 3 readers
- Benore Road — 3 readers
- Hagman Road — 3 readers
- West Bancroft Street — 3 readers
- Enterprise Boulevard — 3 readers
- Toledo Hospital Sidepath — 2 readers
- Toledo — 2 readers
+ 18 more streets and roads mapped around Toledo — all on the live map above.
Toledo OH PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Toledo OH PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 90 other agencies.
Toledo 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 86 traffic. Operators named on the record: Toledo Police Department (41), Meijer (8), ProMedica (7).
Camera activity around Toledo, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Toledo. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.
What’s watching Toledo
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 Toledo — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Toledo (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Toledo
- Vandalism of Flock Cameras Continues in Toledo, Ohio
- On the agenda: Toledo Public Safety & Criminal Justice Reform Committee — Flock Camera (Sep 17)
- 6 new license plate readers reported around Toledo, OH
- Toledo defends license plate cameras amid Ohio privacy debate
What you can do in Toledo
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 Toledo
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).