Flock & ALPR Cameras in Upper Arlington, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 24 automated license plate readers in and around Upper Arlington — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 24 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Upper Arlington, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 16 of them sit inside Upper Arlington itself.
The rest sit in Columbus (7), Marble Cliff (1).
9 of them name an operator in the record: Flock Safety (9). 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 Upper Arlington in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 8, 00:32 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Upper Arlington
The readers mapped around Upper Arlington break down as 18 Flock Safety, 6 of unrecorded make. Named operators in the reports: Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2024; the most recent in Jun 2026.
- West Lane Avenue — 5 readers
- Fishinger Road — 3 readers
- Kenny Road — 2 readers
- Riverside Drive — 2 readers
- Northwest Boulevard — 2 readers
- Dublin Road — 1 reader
- Trabue Road — 1 reader
- Carmack Road — 1 reader
- Kinnear Road — 1 reader
- Tremont Road — 1 reader
- West North Broadway — 1 reader
- Fisher Road — 1 reader
+ 3 more streets and roads mapped around Upper Arlington — all on the live map above.
Upper Arlington OH PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Upper Arlington OH PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 51 other agencies.
Upper Arlington in the Franklin County picture
Franklin County has 580 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #641 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 1,321,635 residents and 3,317 road miles. By road density that is 0.17 cameras per road mile, in the top 1.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 24 traffic. Operators named on the record: Flock Safety (9).
What’s watching Upper Arlington
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 Upper Arlington — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Upper Arlington (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Upper Arlington
- UAPD Launches Flock Safety Transparency Portal
- New chapter on the network: UA Transparency (Upper Arlington, Ohio)
What you can do in Upper Arlington
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 Upper Arlington
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).