Flock & ALPR Cameras in Yellow Springs, Ohio
Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Yellow Springs — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 2 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Yellow Springs, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Yellow Springs itself.
The rest sit in Clifton (1).
1 camera has no municipality recorded yet.
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Yellow Springs in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 16:22 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Yellow Springs
The readers mapped around Yellow Springs break down as 2 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Aug 2025; the most recent in Jan 2026.
- Springfield Xenia Road — 1 reader
- Clinton Street — 1 reader
Yellow Springs 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 1 traffic.
What’s watching Yellow Springs
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 Yellow Springs — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Yellow Springs (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Yellow Springs
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 Yellow Springs
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).