Flock & ALPR Cameras in Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 22 automated license plate readers in and around Wright-Patterson AFB — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 22 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Wright-Patterson AFB, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Wright-Patterson AFB itself.
The rest sit in Beavercreek (12), Fairborn (6), Bath Township (3), Huber Heights (1).
3 of them name an operator in the record: Beavercreek Police Dept. (2), 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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No new reports near Wright-Patterson AFB in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 23:02 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Wright-Patterson AFB
The readers mapped around Wright-Patterson AFB break down as 21 Flock Safety, 1 Genetec. Named operators in the reports: Beavercreek Police Dept., Lowe's. The first camera here was reported in Jun 2025; the most recent in Sep 2026.
- Fairfield Commons — 4 readers
- Colonel Glenn Highway — 3 readers
- Wright Brothers Bikeway — 2 readers
- North Fairfield Road — 2 readers
- Pentagon Boulevard — 2 readers
- Towne Drive — 1 reader
- Crossing Boulevard — 1 reader
- Communications Boluvard — 1 reader
- Kauffman Avenue — 1 reader
- National Road — 1 reader
- Chambersburg Road — 1 reader
- Shields Avenue — 1 reader
+ 2 more streets and roads mapped around Wright-Patterson AFB — all on the live map above.
Wright-Patterson AFB in the Greene County picture
Greene County has 85 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #504 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident, inside the top 23.5% nationally. That’s across 168,531 residents and 1,200 road miles. By road density that is 0.07 cameras per road mile, in the top 8.2% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 16 traffic, 1 street;air. Operators named on the record: Beavercreek Police Dept. (2), Lowe's (1).
Camera activity around Wright-Patterson AFB, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for Wright-Patterson AFB. Latest change logged Sep 2, 2026.
What’s watching Wright-Patterson AFB
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 Wright-Patterson AFB — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Wright-Patterson AFB (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Wright-Patterson AFB
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.
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Cameras near Wright-Patterson AFB
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).