Flock & ALPR Cameras in Wooster, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 41 automated license plate readers in and around Wooster — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
On the record · Contract Canceled
Wooster is on the record here. A college in Wooster, Ohio terminated its contract with Flock Safety.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 41 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Wooster, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 40 of them sit inside Wooster itself.
The rest sit in Wooster Township (1).
1 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (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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- Sep 21 Flock Safety camera newly reported
Newly reported by volunteers — cameras may have been up long before someone mapped them.
Where the cameras are in Wooster
The readers mapped around Wooster break down as 40 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in May 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Beall Avenue — 7 readers
- West Milltown Road — 5 readers
- Burbank Road — 3 readers
- South Columbus Road — 2 readers
- East Wayne Avenue — 2 readers
- Pittsburgh Avenue — 2 readers
- Akron Road — 1 reader
- Friendsville Road — 1 reader
- Old Lincoln Way West — 1 reader
- Back Orrville Road — 1 reader
- Cleveland Road — 1 reader
- Cleveland Road, SR-3 — 1 reader
+ 13 more streets and roads mapped around Wooster — all on the live map above.
Wooster OH PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, Wooster OH PD appears in the sharing network with connections to 43 other agencies.
Wooster in the Wayne County picture
Wayne County has 36 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #993 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 116,618 residents and 1,498 road miles. By road density that is 0.02 cameras per road mile, in the top 25.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 38 traffic, 2 public. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (1).
Camera activity around Wooster, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Wooster. Latest change logged Aug 25, 2026.
What’s watching Wooster
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 Wooster — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Wooster (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
The latest around Wooster
- College terminates contract with Flock Safety
- Flock cameras draw concerns at Wooster City Council meeting
- Wooster, OH: Contract Canceled
- 2 new license plate readers reported around Wooster, OH
What you can do in Wooster
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 Wooster
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).