Flock & ALPR Cameras in Van Wert, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 10 automated license plate readers in and around Van Wert — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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- Oct 6 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Van Wert
The readers mapped around Van Wert break down as 9 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Nov 2025; the most recent in Jul 2026.
- Lincoln Highway — 3 readers
- Marsh Road — 1 reader
- Van Wert-Decatur Road — 1 reader
- Peter Collins Road — 1 reader
- SR 118 — 1 reader
- US 127;US 224 — 1 reader
- North Washington Street — 1 reader
Van Wert OH PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Van Wert OH PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 86 other agencies.
Van Wert in the Van Wert County picture
Van Wert County has 8 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,090 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 28,824 residents and 1,310 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 55.8% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 9 traffic.
What’s watching Van Wert
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 Van Wert — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Van Wert (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Van Wert
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 Van Wert
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).