License plate readers in Dayton, OH
Volunteers have documented 84 automated license plate readers inside Dayton. That is the 5th-largest total among the 153 Ohio cities indexed here, and 1.2% of the statewide total. Its density of 1.5 per square mile places Dayton near the middle of the 2,395 cities indexed nationally. Nearly all of them — 96% — are Flock Safety units.
Checked against OpenStreetMap September 29, 2026 · figures last changed September 11, 2026.
84
readers documented
1.5
per square mile
5th
of 153 indexed Ohio cities · 200th of 2,395 nationally
1.2%
of Ohio’s documented total
Dot colors follow the manufacturer legend below. Boundary: U.S. Census Bureau, 2025 Cartographic Boundary Files. Locations: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Who makes them
- Flock Safety81 · 96%
- Other vendors1 · 1%
- Unknown2 · 2%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 53 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- Recorded operators
- Dayton, OH Police Dept (7). All 720 recorded ALPR operators, ranked →
- How they’re mounted
- pole (4), street lamp (2), post (1)
- Coverage area
- 55.8 square miles of land inside city limits.
Contract decision on record
In Jun 2026, Dayton switched off its Flock Safety cameras. City workers covered cameras with trash bags after officials determined data use had violated city policy on immigration-enforcement sharing. Reported by Fortune.
Cameras can still appear in the record above after a decision like this one. These locations change only when a volunteer edits OpenStreetMap, and a decision date is not a removal date. See this decision in the cancellation tracker →
Nearby
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