Flock & ALPR Cameras in Union, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 17 automated license plate readers in and around Union — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 17 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Union, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 11 of them sit inside Union itself.
The rest sit in Clayton (4), Butler Township (1), Dayton (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Union in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 10:25 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Union
The readers mapped around Union break down as 17 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Sep 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- South Miami Street — 3 readers
- Old Springfield Road — 3 readers
- Sweet Potato Ridge Road — 3 readers
- East Martindale Road — 2 readers
- North Main Street — 2 readers
- Kessler-Frederick Road — 1 reader
- Phillipsburg Union Road — 1 reader
- Dog Leg Road — 1 reader
- Jackson Road — 1 reader
Union OH PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Union OH PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 38 other agencies.
Union 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 17 traffic.
Camera activity around Union, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Union. Latest change logged Aug 28, 2026.
What’s watching Union
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 Union — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Union (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Union
- Ohio attorney general, police union want punishments for Flock misuse
- Privacy watchdog investigating controversial facial recognition ad at Toronto's Union Station
- Digital ad using facial recognition at Toronto's Union Station draws concerns, expert weighs in
What you can do in Union
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 Union
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).