Flock & ALPR Cameras in Trotwood, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 7 automated license plate readers in and around Trotwood — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 7 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Trotwood, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 5 of them sit inside Trotwood itself.
The rest sit in Clayton (2).
4 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (4). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Trotwood in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 06:27 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Trotwood
The readers mapped around Trotwood break down as 7 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in May 2026.
- Salem Avenue — 4 readers
- Shiloh Springs Road — 3 readers
Trotwood OH PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Trotwood OH PD has logged 167 plate-database searches, has captured 125,759 vehicle records. Its network connects to 53 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Trotwood in the Montgomery County picture
Montgomery County has 299 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #427 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 19.9% nationally. That’s across 535,528 residents and 2,247 road miles. By road density that is 0.13 cameras per road mile, in the top 3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 7 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (4).
What’s watching Trotwood
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 Trotwood — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Trotwood (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Trotwood
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 Trotwood
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).