Flock & ALPR Cameras in University Heights, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 29 automated license plate readers in and around University Heights — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 29 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of University Heights, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 15 of them sit inside University Heights itself.
The rest sit in South Euclid (6), Cleveland Heights (3), Shaker Heights (2), Beachwood (1), Cleveland (1), Lyndhurst (1).
19 of them name an operator in the record: University Heights PD (18), Flock Safety (1). 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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- Oct 3 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in University Heights
The readers mapped around University Heights break down as 26 Flock Safety, 2 Motorola Solutions. Named operators in the reports: University Heights PD, Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- Cedar Road — 10 readers
- South Green Road — 2 readers
- Fairmount Boulevard — 2 readers
- Warrensville Center Road — 2 readers
- South Belvoir Boulevard — 2 readers
- East Carroll Boulevard — 1 reader
- Meadowbrook Boulevard — 1 reader
- Eaton Road — 1 reader
- Washington Boulevard — 1 reader
- Stanhope Road — 1 reader
- South Taylor Road — 1 reader
- Goodnor Road — 1 reader
+ 3 more streets and roads mapped around University Heights — all on the live map above.
University Heights OH PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, University Heights OH PD runs 18 cameras of its own, has logged 19 plate-database searches, has captured 270,974 vehicle records. Its network connects to 882 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, Abington Township PA PD, Acworth GA PD, Adairville KY PD, Adams WI PD, Adrian MI PD, Akron OH PD, Alexandria IN PD.
University Heights in the Cuyahoga County picture
Cuyahoga County has 853 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #275 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 12.8% nationally. That’s across 1,249,418 residents and 2,760 road miles. By road density that is 0.31 cameras per road mile, in the top 0.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 28 traffic. Operators named on the record: University Heights PD (18), Flock Safety (1).
What’s watching University Heights
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 University Heights — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to University Heights (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in University Heights
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 University Heights
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).